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Cover 1 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Dedication 6 Table of Contents 10 Acknowledgments 12 Introduction and Methodology 16 Chapter 1. The Story of Ballykilcline 26 Chapter 2. Shifting Ground in Roscommon 61 Chapter 3. Resettling in Rutland 96 Chapter 4. To Battle with a ￢ﾀﾜTwo-Edged Sword￢ﾀﾝ 121 Chapter 5. Family Paths [Includes Image Plates] 133 Chapter 6. Quarry Actions￢ﾀﾔStriking Again 172 Chapter 7. Still Standing in the Gale 188 Afterword 206 Appendix 208 Notes 218 Works Cited 228 Index 240 Back Cover 256 Publisher:University of Massachusetts Press,Published:2008,ISBN:9781613760840,Related ISBN:9781558496583,Language:English,OCLC:609330782 In 1847, in the third year of Ireland's Great Famine and the thirteenth year of their rent strike against the Crown, hundreds of tenant farmers in Ballykilcline, County Roscommon, were evicted by the Queen's agents and shipped to New York. Mary Lee Dunn tells their story in this meticulously researched book. Using numerous Irish and U.S. sources and with descendants' help, she traces dozens of the evictees to Rutland, Vermont, as railroads and marble quarries transformed the local economy. She follows the immigrants up to 1870 and learns no

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Author

Mary Lee Dunn; Mary Lee Dunn Maguire

Publisher

University of Massachusetts Press

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9781613760840

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Sociology, Biography