The Coffin Ship av Cian T. McMahon

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<p><b><i>Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2022</i></b><br/><b><i>Honorable Mention, Theodore Saloutos Book Award, given by the Immigration and Ethnic History Society</i></b><br/><b>A vivid, new portrait of Irish migration through the letters and diaries of those who fled their homeland during the Great Famine</b><br/>The standard story of the exodus during Ireland¿s Great Famine is one of tired clich¿ half-truths, and dry statistics. In <i>The Coffin Ship</i>, a groundbreaking work of transnational history, Cian T. McMahon offers a vibrant, fresh perspective on an oft-ignored but vital component of the migration experience: the journey itself.<br/>Between 1845 and 1855, over two million people fled Ireland to escape the Great Famine and begin new lives abroad. The so-called ¿coffin ships¿ they embarked on have since become infamous icons of nineteenth-century migration. The crews were brutal, the captains were heartless, and the weather was ferocious. Yet the personal experiences