Author: John B. Keane
Publisher: Mercier Press Ltd
ISBN: 1781174334
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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A musical play dealing with emigration and the lack of jobs at home that forced people to leave their native Ireland for England. It describes the emigrants 'longing for home’ - 'Everyone is lonesome leaving home' - their annual homecomings and their return to jobs and places they disliked - 'back to their night shifts, an' filthy digs ... with their long faces leanin' out o' the carriage windows with the thoughts of what's waitin' over'.
Author: John B. Keane
Publisher: Mercier Press Ltd
ISBN: 1781174334
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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A musical play dealing with emigration and the lack of jobs at home that forced people to leave their native Ireland for England. It describes the emigrants 'longing for home’ - 'Everyone is lonesome leaving home' - their annual homecomings and their return to jobs and places they disliked - 'back to their night shifts, an' filthy digs ... with their long faces leanin' out o' the carriage windows with the thoughts of what's waitin' over'.
Author: Thomas Brooks
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Languages : en
Pages : 201
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Author: United States. Office of Education
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Category : Drawing
Languages : en
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Author: John B. Keane
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Languages : en
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Author: Joel Williamson
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN: 0195101294
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 509
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One of America's most acclaimed historians of the South weaves together a perceptive biography of Faulkner with an astute analysis of his works and a revealing history of his ancestors in Mississippi--a family history that becomes, in Williamson's skilled hands, a vivid portrait of Southern culture itself.
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
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Category : Bills, Legislative
Languages : en
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Author: Illinois. Constitutional Convention
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Category : Constitutional conventions
Languages : en
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Author: United States. Bureau of Foreign Commerce
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Category : Emigration and immigration
Languages : en
Pages : 748
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Author: Marianne S. Wokeck
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271043768
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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American historians have long been fascinated by the "peopling" of North America in the seventeenth century. Who were the immigrants, and how and why did they make their way across the ocean? Most of the attention, however, has been devoted to British immigrants who came as free people or as indentured servants (primarily to New England and the Chesapeake) and to Africans who were forced to come as slaves. Trade in Strangers focuses on the eighteenth century, when new immigrants began to flood the colonies at an unprecedented rate. Most of these immigrants were German and Irish, and they were coming primarily to the middle colonies via an increasingly sophisticated form of transport. Wokeck shows how first the German system of immigration, and then the Irish system, evolved from earlier, haphazard forms into modern mass transoceanic migration. At the center of this development were merchants on both sides of the Atlantic who organized a business that enabled them to make profitable use of underutilized cargo space on ships bound from Europe to the British North American colonies. This trade offered German and Irish immigrants transatlantic passage on terms that allowed even people of little and modest means to pursue opportunities that beckoned in the New World. Trade in Strangers fills an important gap in our knowledge of America's immigration history. The eighteenth-century changes established a model for the better-known mass migrations of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, which drew wave after wave of Europeans to the New World in the hope of making a better life than the one they left behind—a story that is familiar to most modern Americans.
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Publisher: Hazelden Publishing
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Languages : en
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