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Contents List of Illustrations vi Preface and Acknowledgments vii . Contrasting Fortunes: Irish Lives from  to the Famine  . Crisis and Despair: The Famine and Its Aftermath  3. Irish Rural Life: Minnesota and New South Wales Compared  . The Pacific Irish: California and Eastern Australia  . New Worlds Converge: Immigrants, Nationalisms, and Sectarian Cultures  . Call of the New: Irish Worlds in the Late Nineteenth Century  . Casting Off Ties:  to the Irish Civil War  Conclusion  Abbreviations  Notes  Select Bibliography  Index  ...

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