Personal Narratives of Irish and Scottish Migration, 1921-65: 'For Spirit and Adventure'

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Manchester University Press, 2007 M10 15 - 257 pages
Between 1921 and 1965 Irish and Scottish migrants continued to seek new homes abroad. Using the personal accounts of these migrants from letters, interviews, questionnaires, and shipboard journals, together with more traditional documentary sources such as immigration files and maritime records, this book examines the experience of migration and settlement in North America and Australasia.

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About the author (2007)

Angela McCarthy is RCUK Academic Fellow/Lecturer in History (Diaspora) at the University of Hull.

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