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| Title: | Part and Parcel: Irish Presbyterian Clerical Migration as the Key to Unlocking the Mystery of Nineteenth-Century Irish Presbyterian Migration to America |
| Authors: | Sherling, RANKIN |
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| Keywords: | Irish
transatlantic
migration
American
Ireland
Ulster
ethnicity
Scotch-Irish
Ulster-Scots
Presbyterian
Religion
immigration
Atlantic
cultural |
| Issue Date: | 31-Oct-2012 |
| Series/Report no.: | Canadian theses |
| Abstract: | This thesis traces the migration of Irish Presbyterian clerics to the Thirteen Colonies and the United States over the course of the years 1683 to 1901. Further, it demonstrates that this clerical migration can be used in conjunction with what is already known about Irish Presbyterian migration to America in the eighteenth century to sketch the general shape and parameters of general Irish Presbyterian migration to the United States in the nineteenth century—something which seemed a near impossibility due to factors such as an absence of useable demographic data. In so doing, it posits a solution to a problem that has bedeviled specialists in Irish-American immigration for thirty years: how to find and study Irish Protestant immigrants in the nineteenth century in a way which gives some idea of the overall shape and frequency of the phenomenon. The following thesis is interdisciplinary and broad in the techniques employed, questions asked, and the literature it has consulted, incorporating much developed by historians of religion, ethnicity, culture, Colonial America, the United States, the Atlantic world, Ireland, and Britain in this study of emigration from Ireland and immigration to America. |
| Description: | Thesis (Ph.D, History) -- Queen's University, 2012-10-31 16:08:27.855 |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1974/7622 |
| Appears in Collections: | Queen's Theses & Dissertations
History Graduate Theses
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