TY  - BOOK
AU  - McMahon,Cian T.
TI  - The Coffin Ship: Life and Death at Sea during the Great Irish Famine 
T2  - The Glucksman Irish Diaspora Series
SN  - 9781479808762
AV  - DA950.7 
U1  - 304.809415/09034 23
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - New York University Press, 
KW  - Immigrants
KW  - Correspondence
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Irish
KW  - Foreign countries
KW  - Ocean travel
KW  - Passenger ships
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Seafaring life
KW  - HISTORY / Europe / Ireland
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - American History
KW  - Assisted Migration
KW  - Black '47
KW  - Burials
KW  - Canals
KW  - Charity
KW  - Cholera
KW  - Cleanliness
KW  - Clothing
KW  - Communication
KW  - Community
KW  - Convict Transportation
KW  - Convicts
KW  - Delayed Departures
KW  - Discipline
KW  - Disembarkation
KW  - Embarkation
KW  - Emigrant Mortality Rates
KW  - Emigrant Relief
KW  - Family
KW  - Funerals
KW  - Gender
KW  - Hierarchy
KW  - Housing
KW  - Immigration
KW  - Landlords
KW  - Liverpool
KW  - Maritime History
KW  - Mourning
KW  - Popular Press
KW  - Power
KW  - Railroads
KW  - Remittances
KW  - Resistance
KW  - Sea Stores
KW  - Seas and Oceans
KW  - Social Class
KW  - Solidarity
KW  - Surgeons
KW  - Theft and fraud
KW  - Theft
KW  - Transnational
KW  - Transportation
KW  - Typhus
KW  - Violence
KW  - Walking
KW  - Work
KW  - Workhouses
N1  - restricted access
N2  - A vivid, new portrait of Irish migration through the letters and diaries of those who fled their homeland during the Great FamineThe 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 step 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 an overlooked aspect of the migration process that left an undeniable mark on their new lives overseas. 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
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781479808809
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781479808809/original
ER  -