Ourselves alone : women's emigration from Ireland, 1885-1920 /
In early April of 1888, sixteen-year-old Mary Ann Donovan stood alone on the quays of Queenstown in county Cork waiting to board a ship for Boston in far-off America. She was but one of almost 700,000 young, usually unmarried women, traveling alone, who left their homes in Ireland during the late ni...
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Lexington, Ky. :
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