Genealogy Journey's Podcast #5: Irish Immigration

Glendalough, Ireland – Photo by Miriam Adrianowicz, ©2006

FOLKTALES & LEGENDS

Curtin, Jeremiah.  Myths and Folk Tales of Ireland. New York: Dover, 1890, 1975.

Haining, Peter (ed.). Irish Tales of Terror.  New York: Bonanza, 1988.

Jacobs, Joseph (collector). Celtic Fairy Tales. New York: Dover, 1892, 1968.

Jacobs, Joseph (ed.). Irish Fairy Tales. Secaucus, NJ: 1984.

O’Faolain, Eileen (collector).  Irish Sagas and Folk Tales.  New York: Avenel, 1982.

Shepard, O. The Lore of the Unicorn. New York: Harper Colophon, 1979.

Cliffs of Moher – Photo by Richard Adrianowicz, ©1984 

WEBSITES and BOOKS

“Kilkelly/Glann, County Mayo.” Mayo on the Move  
For Kilkelly, Ireland letters

McClymer, John, et al. “America in the 1770s, 1850s, and 1920s.” E Pluribus Unum Project. 

Roddy McCorley Society.  

Thomas, E. and R. Brei. Irish Immigrants. 

“Joining the Workforce,” Immigration: Irish, Library of Congress website

Don Jordan & Michael Walsh, White Cargo: The Forgotten of Britain’s Slaves in America, New York: New York Univ. Press, 2008.

John Martin, “The Irish Slave Trade – The Forgotten ‘White’ Slaves,” Global Research, Reprinted 14 April 2008, on-line at http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-irish-slave-trade-the-forgotten-white-slaves/31076

Mick Moloney, Far from the Shamrock Shore: The Story of Irish Immigration through Song, New York: Random House, 2002

Note: Song included in the podcast was performed by Jean Wilcox Hibben, “Last Winter Was a Hard One” (also called “Mrs. Reilly,” on CD recorded in 2005. See circlemending.org to order full CD.