The Forgotten Irish: Irish Emigrant Experiences in America

by Damian Shiels

On the eve of the American Civil War, 1.6 million Irish-born people were living in the United States. The majority had emigrated to the major industrialised cities of the North; New York alone was home to more than 200,000 Irish, one in four of the total population. As a result, thousands of Irish emigrants fought for the Union between 1861 and 1865. The research for this book has its origins in the widows and dependent pension records of that conflict,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845883330
• ISBN13: 9781845883331
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Thp Ireland
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"