| Review | Journal of Social History, 40.2

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Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan: Letters and Memoirs from Colonial and Revolutionary America, 1675–1815. By Kerby A. Miller, Arnold Schrier, Bruce D. Boling and David N. Doyle (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. xxvii, plus 788 pp.).
Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan is a stunning scholarly accomplishment and a major contribution to historical scholarship in a variety of fields. Its subtitle does not do full justice to the broad scale and scope of this work. While letters and memoirs form the core of the book—and are very useful—, the short analytical essays that comprise the rest of the chapters, the extensive annotations, and the appendices all also offer a wealth of information and insight into Irish emigration prior to 1830 and a number of important questions related to that migration. Miller and his colleagues have produced a monumental work of scholarship that will be an essential starting point for scholars of the Irish and Irish American experiences as well as the formation of identity within migration, or Diaspora, communities. There is a great deal here to consider and a great deal to discuss. There is only space in this review to discuss a few of the larger issues the book raises.	1
Miller's earlier work, Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America (1985) won awards and sparked a significant dialogue due to its provocative thesis. It also established Miller as major scholar of Irish emigration. This volume should also play a similar role in immigration history and the study of Irish emigration.	. . .

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