This book comprises the first full-length comparison of Scottish, Irish, English and Welsh migration within Europe in the early modern period. The contributions

Explains the reasons for the large Irish emigration, and examines the problems they faced adjusting to new lives in the United States.

This book offers the first integrated study of the formation of diasporas from the islands of Ireland and Britain, and explores how the examples and experiences

Two centuries of Irish emigration to the U.S. are portrayed through rare photos and the letters of emigrants writing of their New World experiences.