Ireland and Irish Emigration to the New World from 1815 to the Famine
Ireland and Irish Emigration to the New World from 1815 to the Famine

Author: William Forbes Adams

Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com

Published: 1980

Total Pages: 454

ISBN-13: 0806308680

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Mass immigration to the United States was nowhere more apparent than in the immigration of the Irish between 1815 and the failure of the potato crop in 1845/1846, during which time a million Irish men and women emigrated here. This book provides a detailed account of the economic, social, and political factors underlying the early migrations; an examination of the emigrant trade and its links with American shipping interests; and a history of government policy regarding assisted and unassisted emigration.

The Irish County Surveyors 1834-1944
The Irish County Surveyors 1834-1944

Author: Brendan O'Donoghue

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781846820632

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This book is a comprehensive study of the evolution and achievements of the county survey or system in Ireland. The introduction in 1834 of these officials - county engineers in modern terminology - to local government was a major innovation, bringing the infrastructural work of the grand juries under the supervision and direction of a corps of professional engineers; and the appointments themselves were the first at local or central level in the United KingdomÃ?Â?Ã?Â?which were made on the basis of competitive examinations. In the years that followed, the new county surveyors and their successors went on to play a major role in the construction of roads, bridges and public buildings, many of which are still in use today. Preliminary essays describe how appointments were made over the period 1834-1944 and how the work of the surveyors contributed to building up local infrastructure. The biographical dictionary which follows outlines in some detail the careers and achievements of the 200 surveyors who served in the thirty-two counties during the period.

The Cambridge Social History of Modern Ireland
The Cambridge Social History of Modern Ireland

Author: Eugenio F. Biagini

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-04-27

Total Pages: 651

ISBN-13: 1107095581

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This is the first textbook on the history of modern Ireland to adopt a social history perspective. Written by an international team of leading scholars, it draws on a wide range of disciplinary approaches and consistently sets Irish developments in a wider European and global context.

Guide to the Archives of the Office of Public Works
Guide to the Archives of the Office of Public Works

Author: Rena Lohan

Publisher:

Published: 1994-01-01

Total Pages: 307

ISBN-13: 9780707603797

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Records of the Office of Public Works more than 30 years old have been transferred to the National Archives, Dublin. The types of public works records are described, then listed with call numbers.

Irish Passenger Lists, 1847-1871
Irish Passenger Lists, 1847-1871

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13:

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These passenger lists, which cover the period of the Irish Famine and its aftermath, identify the emigrants' "actual places of residence", as well as their port of departure and nationality. Essentially business records, the lists were developed from the order books of two main passenger lines operating out of Londonderry--J.& J. Cooke (1847-67) and William McCorkell & Co. (1863-71). Both sets of records provide the emigrant's name, age, and address, and the name of the ship. The Cooke lists provide the ship's destination and year of sailing, while the McCorkell lists provide the date engaged and the scheduled sailing date. Altogether 27,495 passengers are identified.