| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.5

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Comparative/World

Gerard Moran. Sending Out Ireland's Poor: Assisted Emigration to North America in the Nineteenth Century. Portland, Oreg.: Four Courts Press. 2004. Pp. 252. $55.00.

Few population movements in human history can compare in scale or drama with the emigration of Irish paupers during the nineteenth century. Between 1800 and 1921, more than eight million people fled Ireland for diverse ports in Great Britain, British North America, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand. Many relied on some form of financial assistance, often from family and friends who had already emigrated and managed to scrape together enough money to send tickets. A relatively small portion of these Irish migrants—perhaps five to ten percent of the total—sailed with the help of a formal assisted emigration program, funded either by private philanthropists, the local poor law union, or the British government.

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