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Commins, Pat

Summary: "To leave or stay was the question for the Irish in the nineteenth century. In Ireland, people suffered persecution, poverty and famine. America offered freedom and opportunity. For those who left and came to Michigan, the land's abundant natural resources encouraged them to become loggers, miners, fishermen, traders and farmers. Others became rail workers, merchants, lawyers, soldiers, doctors...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: History Press 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.4 COM
1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 977.4 COM

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.4 COM

Metress, Seamus P.

Contents: Irish emigration to America -- The urban Irish in Detroit -- The Irish beyond Detroit -- Beyond the neighborhood today.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2006

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.4 DTP

Elliott, Richard

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Detroit Society for Genealogical Research 1999

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.3 Ellio

Sommers, Laurie Kay.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 1996

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.6291 SOM

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