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    <subTitle>a story of the Irish in the Old World and the New</subTitle>
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    <publisher>Vintage</publisher>
    <dateIssued>1999</dateIssued>
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    <extent>xii, 732 p. :  ill., maps, ports. ;  21 cm. </extent>
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  <abstract>In the 19th century the Irish population was halved. This text traces the three causes of this depletion: firstly, the famine; secondly the Irish diaspora and the emigrations to places such as America and Canada; and thirdly the transportations of political activists to Australia.</abstract>
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  <note type="statement of responsibility">Thomas Keneally.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references (p. 687-[697]) and index.</note>
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