Reviews
"In challenging many of [Irish-American's] most cherished myths, he has done it a real service. His "warts and all" picture of the Irish-American diaspora enhances respect for the emigrants' courage, endurance, and singlemindedness. The reality is more impressive than the myth."--CanadianReview of Studies in Nationalism, "A veritable monument of research and analysis...[and] a historiographicaland expository achievement of high order."--Journal of American EthnicHistory, "A spirited and far-ranging synthesis...[Miller] has produced a major work of scholarship and analysis, rich in information, trenchant in argument and broad in its grasp. It is well worth reading."--The New York Times Book Review, "Emigrants and Exiles is an extraordinary and valuable work....Miller hasdrawn upon years of intensive scholarship to document the attitudes that Irishemigrants expressed on the subject of their departure from the land of theirbirth."--The Recorder: Journal of the American Irish Historical Society, "In Emigrants and Exiles, the Irish and Irish-Americans have found a work equal to their history--alive with fact, vivid in detail, exposing and assessing the virtues and vices of being Irish."--Terrence Fitzmorris, Tulane University"A well-written and extensively researched study....This ambitious work definitely promises to become a basic title for Irish studies."--Ethnic Forum"Without question Emigrants and Exiles will become a classic in emigration studies and because exile/emigration is so crucial to understanding Ireland it will be a significant text for any study of Irish history."--Journal of American Studies"This is a book that should be read by anyone with even a passing interest in eighteenth-century Ireland or America."--Eoin Magennis, Eighteenth-Century Ireland, "An Extaordinary and Valuable Work."--The Recorder: Journal of the American Irish Historical Society, "The most comprehensive effort at a synthesis of the history of Irishemigration in the past half-century."--Journal of Social History, "A veritable monument of research and analysis...[and] a historiographical and expository achievement of high order."--Journal of American Ethnic History, "The most comprehensive effort at a synthesis of the history of Irish emigration in the past half-century."--Journal of Social History, "A remarkable achievement...a very readable book. Miller never forgets that history is about people...a valuable contribution to scholarship...a mine of fascinating information."--The Los Angeles Times Book Review, "In Emigrants and Exiles , the Irish and Irish-Americans have found a work equal to their history--alive with fact, vivid in detail, exposing and assessing the virtues and vices of being Irish."--Terrence Fitzmorris, Tulane University "A well-written and extensively researched study....This ambitious work definitely promises to become a basic title for Irish studies."-- Ethnic Forum "Without question Emigrants and Exiles will become a classic in emigration studies and because exile/emigration is so crucial to understanding Ireland it will be a significant text for any study of Irish history."-- Journal of American Studies "This is a book that should be read by anyone with even a passing interest in eighteenth-century Ireland or America."--Eoin Magennis, Eighteenth-Century Ireland, "An excellent and sensitive examination of the 'ordinary' Irish emigrant during what was surely an extraordinary experience."--Georgia Historical Quarterly, "A massive work that is at once exhaustively researched and textually dense, and yet persistently argumentative and immensely readable."--Stanley H. Palmer, University of Texas, Arlington, "A spirited and far-ranging synthesis...[Miller] has produced a major workof scholarship and analysis, rich in information, trenchant in argument andbroad in its grasp. It is well worth reading."--The New York Times BookReview, "In challenging many of [Irish-American's] most cherished myths, he hasdone it a real service. His "warts and all" picture of the Irish-Americandiaspora enhances respect for the emigrants' courage, endurance, andsinglemindedness. The reality is more impressive than the myth."--CanadianReview of Studies in Nationalism, "Emigrants and Exiles is an extraordinary and valuable work....Miller has drawn upon years of intensive scholarship to document the attitudes that Irish emigrants expressed on the subject of their departure from the land of their birth."--The Recorder: Journal of the American Irish HistoricalSociety, "In Emigrants and Exiles, the Irish and Irish-Americans have found a work equal to their history--alive with fact, vivid in detail, exposing and assessing the virtues and vices of being Irish."--Terrence Fitzmorris, Tulane University "A well-written and extensively researched study....This ambitious work definitely promises to become a basic title for Irish studies."--Ethnic Forum "Without question Emigrants and Exiles will become a classic in emigration studies and because exile/emigration is so crucial to understanding Ireland it will be a significant text for any study of Irish history."--Journal of American Studies "This is a book that should be read by anyone with even a passing interest in eighteenth-century Ireland or America."--Eoin Magennis, Eighteenth-Century Ireland
