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BL
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712357
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b534546
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| Main Entry
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Scally, Robert James.
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| Title & Author
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The end of hidden Ireland : : rebellion, famine, and emigration /\ Robert James Scally.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Oxford University Press,, 1995.
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| Page. NO
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viii, 266 p. :: ill., map ;; 25 cm.
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| ISBN
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0195055829 (acid-free paper)
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: 0195106598
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: 9780195055825 (acid-free paper)
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: 9780195106596
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-259) and index.
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| Contents
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The townland -- The land system -- Land and society around Strokestown -- Ballykilcline : deputies and defendants -- "Rebellion" in Ballykilcline, 1836-1847 -- Eviction -- Knowledge and isolation -- The way out -- Liverpool and the Celtic Sea -- The crossing : "just over a river" -- Epilogue : identity and emigration.
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| Abstract
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Many thousands of Irish peasants fled from the country in the terrible famine winter of 1847-48, following the road to the ports and the Liverpool ferries to make the dangerous passage across the Atlantic. The human toll of "Black '47," the worst year of the famine, is notorious, but the lives of the emigrants themselves have remained largely hidden, untold because of their previous obscurity and deep poverty. In The End of Hidden Ireland, Scally brings their lives to light. Focusing on the townland of Ballykilcline in Roscommon, Scally offers a portrait of Irish rural life on the eve of the catastrophe. From their internal lives and values, to their violent conflict with the English Crown, from rent strikes to the potato blight, he takes the emigrants on each stage of their journey out of Ireland to New York. Along the way, he offers insights into the character and mentality of the immigrants as they arrived in America in their millions during the famine years. --From publisher's description.
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| Subject
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Country life-- Ireland-- Ballykilcline-- History-- 19th century.
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Famines-- Ireland-- Ballykilcline-- History-- 19th century.
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Villages-- Ireland-- Ballykilcline-- History-- 19th century.
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Ballykilcline (Ireland), Emigration and immigration.
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Ballykilcline (Ireland), History.
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Ireland, History, Famine, 1845-1852.
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| LC Classification
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DA995.B147S34 1995
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