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Transatlantic Lives: The Irish Experience in Colonial America: The Irish Experience in Colonial America

Transatlantic Lives: The Irish Experience in Colonial America: The Irish Experience in Colonial America

Roulston, William
Quinn, James
Lunney, Linde

Paperback

Biographies GeneralBritish HistoryRevolutionary Period (1775-1800)

Publisher Price: $17.99

ISBN10: 1909556645
ISBN13: 9781909556645
Publisher: Ulster Historical Foundation
Published: Oct 1 2019
Pages: 186
Weight: 0.59
Height: 0.40 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This volume features fifty-nine biographical essays from the Royal Irish Academy's Dictionary of Irish Biography, detailing the careers of a selection of Irish emigrants to North America in the colonial period. Those chosen are a representative sample of some of the more notable figures. Colonial administrators, soldiers and clergymen predominate. Among clergymen, Presbyterians are the most numerous, but space has also been found for Methodists, Anglicans and Catholics, all of whom made their contribution to shaping the religious culture of the colonies. The selection also includes educators, doctors, writers, artists, printers, merchants and even a (female) pirate to give some sense of the diversity of such emigrants, and their

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