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Irish Americans

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  • Irish emigrants in America: a woman with two children, and a man sitting outside an inn smoking a pipe. Coloured etching after William Heath.
  • A well-dressed black couple in New York City are being offered a coat by a poor Irish immigrant outside a laundry. Coloured lithograph.
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Catalogue

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    Receiving Erin's children : Philadelphia, Liverpool, and the Irish famine migration, 1845-1855 / J. Matthew Gallman.

    Gallman, J. Matthew (James Matthew) | Date: [2000], ©2000
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    Irish emigrants in America: a woman with two children, and a man sitting outside an inn smoking a pipe. Coloured etching after William Heath.

    Heath, William, 1795-1840. | Reference: 32851i
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    A well-dressed black couple in New York City are being offered a coat by a poor Irish immigrant outside a laundry. Coloured lithograph.

    | Date: 1800-1899 | Reference: 32999i
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