Download or read book The Coffin Ship written by Cian T. McMahon and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2022-12 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Honorable Mention, Theodore Saloutos Book Award, given by the Immigration and Ethnic History Society A vivid, new portrait of Irish migration through the letters and diaries of those who fled their homeland during the Great Famine The standard story of the exodus during Ireland’s Great Famine is one of tired clichés, half-truths, and dry statistics. In The Coffin Ship, a groundbreaking work of transnational history, Cian T. McMahon offers a vibrant, fresh perspective on an oft-ignored but vital component of the migration experience: the journey itself. Between 1845 and 1855, over two million people fled Ireland to escape the Great Famine and begin new lives abroad. The so-called “coffin ships” they embarked on have since become infamous icons of nineteenth-century migration. The crews were brutal, the captains were heartless, and the weather was ferocious. Yet the personal experiences of the emigrants aboard these vessels offer us a much more complex understanding of this pivotal moment in modern history. Based on archival research on three continents and written in clear, crisp prose, The Coffin Ship analyzes the emigrants’ own letters and diaries to unpack the dynamic social networks that the Irish built while voyaging overseas. At every stage of the journey—including the treacherous weeks at sea—these migrants created new threads in the worldwide web of the Irish diaspora. Colored by the long-lost voices of the emigrants themselves, this is an original portrait of a process that left a lasting mark on Irish life at home and abroad. An indispensable read, The Coffin Ship makes an ambitious argument for placing the sailing ship alongside the tenement and the factory floor as a central, dynamic element of migration history.
Download or read book Life on Board an Emigrant Ship written by John Davies Mereweather and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Life on Board a Mormon Emigrant Ship written by David H. Pratt and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ship of Death written by Jane Smith and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-09 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Impeccably researched and poignantly told, Ship of Death unfurls the true saga of the 'Emigrant'. For the first time, this book reveals the human stories of some key players in the drama and brings to life a remarkable journey common to Australia's early settlers. Their stories are tales of hardship, resilience, courage, and despair.
Download or read book Death Ships written by Doug Limbrick and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the account of what took place on the Death Ships during the journey to the colonies... In 1851, the discovery of gold in Australia had a huge and almost immediate impact on the colonies, as many went to seek their fortune. Shiploads of gold seekers sailed in from the United Kingdom and from around the world. Melbourne was inundated and thus became the world's busiest port... In the colonies, industry and commerce came to a halt. The mills in Lancashire were forced to close due to a lack of Australian wool. And a desperate call was made to Britain for replacement labour... British authorities located suitable emigrants, but normal transport ships were no longer available. Many ships were engaged in making money transporting gold seekers to Australia, while others lay abandoned in Port Phillip following desertion by the crew. Out of Liverpool, the solution emerged. Six very large North American-built ships became accessible; Wanata, Beejapore, Marco Polo, Shackamaxon, Ticonderoga and Bourneuf. They were quickly commissioned and departed in 1852 with nearly 5000 passengers on board. This is the account of what took place on each vessel during the journey to the colonies...
Download or read book Life on an Emigrant Ship written by and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Over the Mountains of the Sea written by David Hastings and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing upon more than 80 personal diaries and journals of those on board, this resource explores the rich experience and the trials and tribulations of hopeful Anglo-Celtic pilgrims headed to Australia and New Zealand aboard migrant ships in the late 19th century. From daily routines to matters of food, health, religion, crime, and mutiny, this history unearths the humor, scandal, and personal triumph that defined the nautical pilgrimage of hundreds.
Download or read book Life s Work as it Is Or The Emigrant s Home in Australia written by Colonist and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Emigrant Ship and Other Poems written by James Lister Smith and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Emigrant Ship, ' the principal poem in this volume, is written as a sequence in the manner of the Canterbury Tales, in six tales 'told' on an emigrant ship bound for Australia. The Introduction refers to a becalmed, peaceful ship, 'Yet exiles there with grief and sorrow, / Wept the past, or feared the morrow, / Thinking now of England's strand, / Now of Australia's sunny land.' And in 'The Peasant's Tale': 'On Yarra's banks a cot is seen, / Where flourish oak and cedar green, / And every flower rich and rare / Australia spreads, is clustered there. / Not wanting England's hardier plants, / Brought from the exile's native haunts'. In the Preface the author maintains these 'stories contain more of truth than fiction, and the scenes are drawn from real life.
Download or read book Steam and the Sea written by Paul Forsythe Johnston and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Emigrant Ship written by William Clark Russell and published by London : [s.n.]. This book was released on 1893 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Life in an Emigrant Ship written by and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Irish Emigrant s Guide for the United States written by John O'Hanlon and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Famine Ships written by Edward Laxton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ___________________ 'A splendid book' - Irish Times Between 1846 and 1851, the Great Famine claimed more than a million Irish lives. The Famine Ships tells the story of the courage and determination of those who crossed the Atlantic in leaky, overcrowded sailing ships and made new lives for themselves, among them William Ford, father of Henry Ford, and twenty-six-year-old Patrick Kennedy, great-grandfather of John F. Kennedy.
Download or read book Ten Pound Poms written by A. James Hammerton and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2005-08-06 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors draw upon a rich life history archive of letters, diaries, personal photographs and oral history interviews with former migrants, including those who settled in Australia and those who returned to Britain. They offer original interpretations of key historical themes, including motivations for emigration; gender relations and the family dynamics of migration; the 'very familiar and awfully strange' confrontation with the new world; the anguish of homesickness and return; and the personal and national identities of both settlers and returnees, fifty years on. --book cover.
Download or read book The Amateur Emigrant written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Colonization Circular written by Great Britain. Emigration Commission and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
