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From Publishers Weekly
A moving portrayal of three centuries of Irish emigration to the U.S., this stunning photoessay is the companion to a PBS documentary film which Wagner coproduced and directed. Focusing on eight families, he and Miller ( Emigrants and Exiles ) cull their letters, memoirs and photographs to explore common patterns in the Irish-American experience. Overcoming prejudice and discrimination, and often beginning life anew at the very bottom of the economic ladder, Irish-Americans built farms, industries and transportation networks, and achieved prominence in business, the labor movement, politics and religion. Yet many, ambivalent about the American dream, felt homesick for an often idealized Ireland, even as they found it increasingly difficult to transmit an Irish identity to their children. 20,000 first printing; History Book of the Month Club selection.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Miller and Wagner's decision to place at the center of their well-wrought text the letters that Irish immigrants wrote to their families and friends back home is most ingenious. No contemporary words could speak as clearly of the mixture of opportunity and loss those immigrants felt as these of Maurice Woulfe: "Every stone, gap and field in Cratloe and its surroundings are as clear in my mind as when I was home." The chapters cover the expected material (the potato famine, Tammany Hall, American political support for Irish nationalism), but what distinguishes this book is its focus on representative individual immigrants of no particular fame. These "exiles" (for such is the meaning of the Gaelic word for immigrant) were given an "American wake" on departure, for many would never see or be seen in their home villages again. Their words are simple and eloquent and memorable. A fine selection of historical photos illustrates this companion book to a PBS television documentary with the same title, set to air this fall and winter. Pat Monaghan
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A moving portrayal of three centuries of Irish emigration to the U.S., this stunning photoessay is the companion to a PBS documentary film which Wagner coproduced and directed. Focusing on eight families, he and Miller ( Emigrants and Exiles ) cull their letters, memoirs and photographs to explore common patterns in the Irish-American experience. Overcoming prejudice and discrimination, and often beginning life anew at the very bottom of the economic ladder, Irish-Americans built farms, industries and transportation networks, and achieved prominence in business, the labor movement, politics and religion. Yet many, ambivalent about the American dream, felt homesick for an often idealized Ireland, even as they found it increasingly difficult to transmit an Irish identity to their children. 20,000 first printing; History Book of the Month Club selection.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
Miller and Wagner's decision to place at the center of their well-wrought text the letters that Irish immigrants wrote to their families and friends back home is most ingenious. No contemporary words could speak as clearly of the mixture of opportunity and loss those immigrants felt as these of Maurice Woulfe: "Every stone, gap and field in Cratloe and its surroundings are as clear in my mind as when I was home." The chapters cover the expected material (the potato famine, Tammany Hall, American political support for Irish nationalism), but what distinguishes this book is its focus on representative individual immigrants of no particular fame. These "exiles" (for such is the meaning of the Gaelic word for immigrant) were given an "American wake" on departure, for many would never see or be seen in their home villages again. Their words are simple and eloquent and memorable. A fine selection of historical photos illustrates this companion book to a PBS television documentary with the same title, set to air this fall and winter. Pat Monaghan
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