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Editor’s Introduction. [5]. Patterns of Irish Emigration to America, 1783-1800 by Maurice J. Bric [10]. "We Will Dirk Every Mother’s Son of YoU”: Five Points and the Irish Conquest of New York Politics by Tyler Anbinder [29]. "The Republic of Letters”: Frederick Douglass, Ireland, and the Irish Narratives by Fionnghuala Sweeney [47]. “White,” if “Not Quite”: Irish Whiteness in the Nineteenth-Century Irish-American Novel by Catherine M. Eagan [66]. Dancing Between Decks: Choreographies of Transition During Irish Migrations to America by J'aime Morrison [83]. The Famine’s Scars: William Murphy’s Ulster and American Odyssey by Kerby A. Miller and Bruce D. Boling with Llam Kennedy [98]. Miners in Migration: The Case of Nineteenth-Century Irish and Irish-American Copper Miners by Timothy M. O’Neil [124]. Young Irish Workers: Class Implications of Men’s and Women’s Experiences in Gilded Age Chicago by Patricia Kelleher [141]. “Come YoU All Courageously”: Irish Women in America Write Home by Ruth-Ann M. Harris [166]. Relinquishing and Reclaiming Independence: Irish Domestic Servants, American Middle-Class Mistresses, and Assimilation, 1850-1920 by Diane M. Hotten-Somers [185]. Cover by Kathleen Costello-Sullivan [202]. Contributors. [203]