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Sources for Research in Irish Genealogy :
Emigration

Compiled by Judith P. Reid



1.	Adams, William Forbes.
	Ireland and Irish emigration to the new world from 1815 to the
	famine. -- New Haven : Yale University Press, 1932. -- vii p., l
	leaf, 444 p.                                    
								JV7711.Z79 N63

	Reprinted in New York by Russell & Russell in 1967 and in
	Baltimore by Genealogical Pub. Co. in 1980.

2.	Dickson, R.J.
	Ulster emigration to colonial America, 1718-1775 / by R.J.
	Dickson. -- London : Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1966. -- xiv, 320 p.
	: map, tables. -- (Ulster-Scot historical series ; no. 1)
								E184.S4 D47

	Bibliography: p. 298-311.

3.	Emigrants from Ireland to America, 1735-1743 : a transcription of
	the report of the Irish House of Commons into enforced emigration
	to America / by Frances McDonnell. -- Baltimore : Genealogical
	Pub. Co., c1992. -- 134 p.                      
								E184.I6 E45 1992

	From the Journal of the House of Commons of the Kingdom of
	Ireland, Vol. 7, 1796.

4.	The Famine immigrants : lists of Irish immigrants arriving at the
	port of New York, 1846-1851 / Ira A. Glazier, editor ; Michael
	Tepper, associate editor. -- Baltimore : Genealogical Pub. Co.,
	1983-1986. -- 7 v.                            
								E184.I6 F25 1983 

	Includes bibliographical references and indexes. 
	Contents: v. 1. January 1846-June 1847 -- v. 2. July
	1847-June 1848 -- v. 3. July 1848-March 1849 -- v. 4. April
	1849-September 1849 -- v. 5. October 1849-May 1850 -- v. 6. June
	1850-March 1851 -- v. 7. April 1851-December 1851. 

5.	Houston, Cecil J., 1943-
	Irish emigration and Canadian settlement : patterns, links, and
	letters / Cecil J. Houston, William J. Smyth. -- Toronto ;
	Buffalo : University of Toronto Press ; Belfast : Ulster
	Historica Foundation, c1990. -- viii, 370 p. : ill.
								F1035.I6 H68 1990

	Includes bibliographical references (p. [341]-364) and
	index.

6.	Irish passenger lists, 1847-1871 : lists of passengers sailing
	from Londonderry to America on ships of the J. & J. Cooke Line
	and the McCorkell Line / compiled under the direction of Brian
	Mitchell. -- Baltimore : Genealogical Pub. Co, 1988. -- xvii, 333
	p. : ill.                                       
								E184.I6 I69 1988 

7.	Lockhart, Audrey.
	Some aspects of emigration from Ireland to the North American
	colonies between 1660 and 1775 / Audrey Lockhart. -- New York :
	Arno Press, 1976. -- 243 p. -- (The Irish-Americans)
								E184.I6 L65 1976
	Bibliography: p. 213-243.
	Reprint of the author's thesis, Trinity College, Dublin,
	1971.

8.	Miller, Kerby A.
	Emigrants and exiles : Ireland and the Irish exodus to North
	America / Kerby A. Miller. -- New York : Oxford University Press,
	1985. -- xii 684 p. : map.                    
								JV7711.Z79 U55 1985

	Bibliography: p. 583-664.

9.	Mitchell, Brian. 
	Irish emigration lists, 1833-1839 : lists of emigrants extracted
	from the Ordnance Survey memoirs for Counties Londonderry and
	Antrim / compiled under the direction of Brian Mitchell. --
	Baltimore : Genealogical Pub. Co., c1989. -- vii, 118 p., [2] p.
	of plates : ill.                              
								CS497.L66 M58 1989 

10.	Schlegel, Donald M.
	Passengers from Ireland : lists of passengers arriving at
	American ports between 1811 and 1817 / transcribed from the
	Shamrock or Hibernian Chronicle by Donald M. Schlegel. --
	Baltimore : Genealogical Pub. Co., 1980. -- 158 p.
								E184.I6 S34

11.	The Search for missing friends : Irish immigrant advertisements
	placed in the Boston pilot / Ruth-Ann M. Harris and Donald M.
	Jacobs, editors ; B. Emer O'Keeffe, associate editor, Dominique
	M. Pickett, assistant editor. -- Boston : New England Historic
	Genealogical Society, 1989-<1993>. -- v. <1 3-> : ill. 
								F73.9.I6 S43 1989 

	Includes bibliographical references and indexes. 
	Contents: v. 1. 1831-1850 -- v. 2. 1851-1853 -- v. 3.
	1854-1856 --
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