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Sending out Ireland's poor : assisted emigration to North America in the nineteenth century
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- Creator
- Gerard Moran
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Dublin : Four Courts Press, 2004
- Physical Details
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- 252 pages ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781851828241, 1851828249
- OCLC
- ocm54858939
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-237) and index.
- The pre-Famine assisted emigration debate and the Peter Robinson scheme -- Landlords and assisted emigration before and after the Famine -- The British government and assisted emigration during the Famine -- Passage and settlement in North America -- 'Permanent deadweight': the poor law and assisted emigration -- Post-Famine assisted emigration schemes -- Settlement of the post-Famine assisted emigrants in North America