Add to ORKGThousands of single Irish women emigrated to the United States after the Great Potato Famine. These women left Ireland because social conditions in Ireland limited their opportunities for fulfilling lives. Changes in marriage and inheritance patterns lowered the status of unmarried women and made marriage increasingly unlikely. As a result, many women emigrated to the United States and, once here, worked, used their wages to help others emigrate, and most eventually married. Irish culture facilitated this mass migration by promoting the autonomy of single women yet limiting their options. Emigration did not signify a break with their Irish culture and their families but represented a culturally approved solution to the constraints single wo...
Before the Great Famine of 1847, the population of Ireland underwent a great demographic rise due to...
In most western societies, marital fertility began to decline in the nineteenth century. But in Irel...
This short essay examines the Irish potato famine\u27s impact on the lives of Irish women, both thos...
This work examines the lives and wellbeing of Irish women in the United States from 1850 until 1914,...
Since the 1980s historians have focused on the specificity of female Irish emigration. Women were pr...
Despite the extensive scholarly literature on both the Great Famine in Ireland and the Famine immigr...
This study is an attempt to bridge the gap in Irish migration history. While there are numerous stud...
Mass emigration was one key feature of the Great Irish Famine which distinguishes it from today's fa...
Irish women have a long history of emigration which provides parallels with the experiences of women...
In early April of 1888, sixteen-year-old Mary Ann Donovan stood alone on the quays of Queenstown in ...
A computer database of detailed information on 23,753 emigrants who sailed from the port of Derry in...
From 1879 to 1881 Western Ireland suffered a famine that left one million people in a state of desti...
In most western societies, marital fertility began to decline in the nineteenth century. But in Irel...
Ireland experienced dramatic levels of emigration in the century following the Famine of 1845–1849. ...
Mass emigration was one key feature of the Great Irish Famine which distinguishes it from today's fa...
Before the Great Famine of 1847, the population of Ireland underwent a great demographic rise due to...
In most western societies, marital fertility began to decline in the nineteenth century. But in Irel...
This short essay examines the Irish potato famine\u27s impact on the lives of Irish women, both thos...
This work examines the lives and wellbeing of Irish women in the United States from 1850 until 1914,...
Since the 1980s historians have focused on the specificity of female Irish emigration. Women were pr...
Despite the extensive scholarly literature on both the Great Famine in Ireland and the Famine immigr...
This study is an attempt to bridge the gap in Irish migration history. While there are numerous stud...
Mass emigration was one key feature of the Great Irish Famine which distinguishes it from today's fa...
Irish women have a long history of emigration which provides parallels with the experiences of women...
In early April of 1888, sixteen-year-old Mary Ann Donovan stood alone on the quays of Queenstown in ...
A computer database of detailed information on 23,753 emigrants who sailed from the port of Derry in...
From 1879 to 1881 Western Ireland suffered a famine that left one million people in a state of desti...
In most western societies, marital fertility began to decline in the nineteenth century. But in Irel...
Ireland experienced dramatic levels of emigration in the century following the Famine of 1845–1849. ...
Mass emigration was one key feature of the Great Irish Famine which distinguishes it from today's fa...
Before the Great Famine of 1847, the population of Ireland underwent a great demographic rise due to...
In most western societies, marital fertility began to decline in the nineteenth century. But in Irel...
This short essay examines the Irish potato famine\u27s impact on the lives of Irish women, both thos...