Overview: Considers the role of women during the Great Irish Famine and Famine migration.Examines the ways in which Irish transatlantic communities negotiated identities.Offers annotated key excerpts from Irish.T.he Famine Diaspora and Irish American Women’s Writing. considers the works of eleven North American female authors who wrote for or descended from the Irish Famine generation: Anna Dorsey, Christine Faber, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Mother Jones, Kate Kennedy, Margaret Dixon McDougall, Mary Meaney, Alice Nolan, Fanny Parnell, Mary Anne Sadlier, and Elizabeth Hely Walshe. This collection
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