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This book could not have been written without the assistance of many librarians and archivists. I would like to express my thanks to the staff of the National Archives, especially to Tom Quinlan and Catríona Crowe for tracking down elusive files; to Bernard Meehan and Stuart Ó Seanóir in the Manuscripts Room at Trinity College Dublin who listed sections of the Arnold Marsh Papers so that I could have access to them; to David Sheehy in the Dublin Diocesan Archives for his expertise and good company over lunch; to Seamus Helferty and the staff in the University College Dublin Archives for providing a peaceful retreat in a busy campus; and to another oasis on the UCD campus, the archives of the Department of Irish Folklore . My debt to Tony Eklof, Anne Cooney, and the staff in the Official Publications section of UCD Library for continuing to provide the most user-friendly environment in a large library cannot be overstated. Philip Hannan facilitated my access to the Fianna Fáil xi Acknowledgments Archives (now in UCD); Gary Ansbro of the Department of Foreign Affairs opened the door to records in the consular section of the Department of Foreign Affairs. My thanks, too, to Siobhán Fitzpatrick, Bernie Cunningham, and Petra Schnabel in the Library of the Royal Irish Academy. Gerry Hughes of the Economic and Social Research Institute gave me a copy of his unpublished estimates for net emigration ; David Doyle, a colleague in the School of History and Archives, answered numerous queries and directed me toward several valuable sources; my thanks also to Jim Donnelly, Trevor Parkhill, Kevin O’Rourke, Michael Laffan, Michael Kennedy, Conor Ward, Susannah Riordan, and Cormac Ó Gráda. This book gained enormously from my association with an outstanding group of graduate students and postdoctoral scholars : Marie Coleman, Catherine Cox, Caitríona Clear, Maurice Curtis , Mark Duncan, Lindsey Earner-Byrne, Gerry Fee, Tom Feeney, Diarmaid Ferriter, Patricia Harkin, William Murphy, Margaret Ó hÓgartaigh, and Paul Rouse. Two other graduate students, Rob Somerville-Woodward and Aideen Foley, helped with research on Irish provincial newspapers. The initial research for this project was carried out during a one-year President’s Fellowship awarded by University College Dublin , which was supplemented by a semester’s leave granted by the Combined Departments of History (now the School of History and Archives). I can never adequately express my gratitude to the most important people in my life: P. J., Paul, Elizabeth, Nicholas, and Alice. The book is dedicated to six young people whose lives epitomize a new phase in Irish demography: Edouard and Sara Crowley, of French Irish parentage, live in Paris; Mathew Crowley lives in Brussels with his Irish parents; and Ian, Emily, and Laura Crowley, of Scottish and Irish parentage, are growing up in Dublin. xii Acknowledgments ...

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