The stories and information found on this blog are just a fraction of the history of Irish female immigration during the 19th century in America. For my fellow women's history lovers, check out these following recommendations:
Literary Sources:
Erin's Daughters in America: Irish Immigrant Women in the Nineteenth Century
By Hasia R. Diner
Making the Irish American: History and Heritage of the Irish in the United States
Edited by J.J. Lee & Marion R. Casey
The Irish Bridget: Irish Immigrant Women in Domestic Service in America, 1840-1930
By Margaret Lynch-Brennan
Five Points: The 19th-Century New York City Neighborhood That Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections, and Became the World's Most Notorious Slum
By Tyler Anbinder
Documentaries:
Out of Ireland
Directed by Paul Wagner
Five Points: New York’s Irish Working Class in the 1850s
Written by Bret Eynon
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