Ship of Death

Ship of Death
Author: Jane Smith
Publisher:
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2019-10-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780648650300

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.

The Coffin Ship

The Coffin Ship
Author: Cian T. McMahon
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2022-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 1479820539

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.

The Emigrant Ship

The Emigrant Ship
Author: William Clark Russell
Publisher: London : [s.n.]
Total Pages: 366
Release: 1893
Genre: Immigrants
ISBN:

New World Immigrants

New World Immigrants
Author: Michael Tepper
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
Total Pages: 1206
Release: 1979
Genre: Registers of births, etc
ISBN: 0806308540

A consolidation of the many articles regarding ship passenger lists previously published.

The Emigrant Ship

The Emigrant Ship
Author: William Clark Russell
Publisher:
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2019-02-12
Genre:
ISBN: 9783337740627

The Amateur Emigrant

The Amateur Emigrant
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
Total Pages: 202
Release: 1895
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

"For in emigration the young men enter direct by the shipload on their heritage of work; empty continents swarm, as at the bosun's whistle, with industrious hands, and whole hew empires are domesticated to the service of man." -Robert Louis Stevenson, The Amateur Emigrant The Amateur Emigrant from the Clyde to Sandy Hook (1895), by Robert Louis Stevenson is the first book (followed by Across the Plains and the Silverado Squatters) in a trilogy the author wrote about his journey from Scotland to California in 1879-1880. In this volume, he describes the first leg of his trip, made by ship from Europe to New York City. Stevenson depicts the crowded conditions he experienced in steerage with others who, like him, were poor and sick. At the conclusion, the author also offers his usual sharp-eyed observations, which, in this case are of New York and New Yorkers.

The Famine Ships

The Famine Ships
Author: Edward Laxton
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2016-08-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 1408884003

___________________ '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.