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A Letter Home is a beautiful, illustrated book featuring over sixty letters – short and long – written to home by Irish emigrants to North America from the early 1800s to the mid-1900s.
Drawn from the Imirce collection at the University of Galway, these carefully selected letters give heartrending insight into both the experience of Irish emigrants and their understanding of emigration.
Their words carried across the Atlantic – of love and loss, hope and disappointment, the everyday and momentous – linger long in the mind and give pause for thought.
A Letter Home is testament to the ties that distance could never break.
Author biographies -
Kerby A. Miller is an American historian and emeritus professor at University of Missouri. He is known for his works on Irish immigration and was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize. He has won the Merle Curti Prize from Organization of American Historians and the Theodore Saloutos Prize from Immigration History Society.
Breandán Mac Suibhne is a Professor of Modern Irish History at the University of Galway as well as an award-winning author for his 2017 book The End of Outrage. Mac Suibhne was also a founding editor of the acclaimed journal of Irish studies Field Day Review.
