Series 4 - Notes on Irish emigrants in America

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P/P155/31/4

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Notes on Irish emigrants in America

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  • [1970]-[1979] (Creation)

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129pp

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Kerby A. Miller's notes on Irish emigrants in America going back to the 1790's. Notes cover sources on a range of topics from aspects of the emigrant experience, religion, customs, Irish emigrant interactions with enslavement and the Civil War in the American South, labour concerns, songs and poetry, and the Irish language in America, amongst others. Series contains typed and handwritten notecards compiled by Miller and his research assistants.

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