Week 5

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Topics

Irish Immigrants in the New World
Home Rule

Tutorial Focus Question

Why did vast numbers of Irish flee to the United States rather than to more ‘favourable’ destinations such as New Zealand and Australia?

Essential Reading

• Fitzpatrick, David, 'Irish emigration in the later nineteenth century', Irish Historical Studies XXII (No. 86, 1980), pp. 126-43.

Recommended Readings

• Akenson, Donald, The Irish Diaspora: a primer (Belfast, 1993) [short loan]..
• Diner, Hasia, Erin's Daughters in America: Irish Immigrant Women in the Nineteenth Century (Baltimore, 1983) [short loan].
• Fitzpatrick, David, 'Emigration 1801-1870', in William E. Vaughan (ed.), A New History of Ireland Volume V: Ireland Under the Union 1801-70 (Oxford, 1989), pp. 562-622 [short loan].
• ---.'Emigration 1870-1921', in William E. Vaughan (ed.), A New History of Ireland Volume VI: Ireland Under the Union II, 1870-1921(Oxford, 1996), pp. 606-52 [short loan].
• Gribben, Arthur (ed.),  The great famine and the Irish diaspora in America (Amherst, Mass., 1999).
• Guinnane, Timothy, The Vanishing Irish: households, migration and the rural economy in Ireland 1850-1914 (Princeton, 1997) [short loan].
• Hayes, Alan and Diane Urquhart (eds.), The Irish women's history reader (London, 2001) [short loan].
• Kenny, Kevin, The American Irish: a history (New York, 2000) [short loan]. 
• MacDonagh, Oliver, 'The Irish Famine Emigration to the United States', Perspectives in American History 10 (1976), pp. 357-446 [short loan].
• Miller, Kerby, A. Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America (New York, 1985) [short loan].
• Miller, Kerby A. with David N. Doyle and Patricia Kelleher, "'For Love and Liberty': Irish Women, Migration and Domesticity in Ireland and America, 1815-1920", in Patrick O'Sullivan (ed.) Irish Women and Irish Migration (London, 1995), 41-65 [short loan].
• O'Connell, Anne, "'The Care of the Immigrant Girls': The Migration Process of Late-Nineteenth-Century Irish Women", Eire-Ireland XXXV (Fall/Winter 2000-2001), 102-33.
• Scally, Robert, The End of Hidden Ireland: Rebellion, Famine, and Emigration (New York, 1995).

Lecture Outlines
Immigrants in the New World

1. Representing the Irish abroad
2. Historiography in dispute
3. Re-viewing the Irish world-wide.

William Shannon
Lawrence McCaffrey
Kerby Miller, Emigrants and Exiles (New York, 1985)
Donald Akenson
Filiopietism
comparative history
Urban v. Rural settlement
Minnesota
Irish American Colonization Company
Bishop Ireland
The Connemaras

 

Home Rule

1. Physical force and its aftermath
2. Isaac Butt and Home Rule
3. Parnellite Politics
4. Fall of Parnell

Fenian Brotherhood
John O'Mahony
Irish Republican Brotherhood
James Stephens
Thomas Kelly
Chester Castle
Clerkenwell
Manchester martyrs
Isaac Butt's Home Government Association (1870)
Joseph Biggar
Charles Stewart Parnell
Women's Land League Anna and Fanny Parnell
Margaret Ward, Unmanageable revolutionaries (London, 1995)
W. E. Gladstone
Kilmainham Treaty