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Personal narratives of emigration and adjustment*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 March 2016

Donald M. MacRaild*
Affiliation:
School of History and International Affairs, University of Ulster, Coleraine

Abstract

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Review Article
Copyright
Copyright © Irish Historical Studies Publications Ltd 2008

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Footnotes

*

Your fondest Annie. By Annie O’Donnell. Edited by Maureen Murphy. Pp vi, 154. Dublin: University College Dublin Press. 2005. €20.

My struggle for life. By Joseph Keating. Edited by Paul O’Leary. Pp xi, 308. Dublin: University College Dublin Press. 2005. €25.

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