Ballykilcline Rising

by Dunn, Mary Lee

• ISBN13: 9781558496590
• ISBN10: 1558496599
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-06-01
• Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Pr

Summary

In 1847, in the third year of Ireland's Great Famine and the thirteenth year of their rent strike against the Crown, hundreds of tenant farmers in Ballykilcline, County Roscommon, were evicted by the Queen's agents and shipped to New York. Mary Lee Dunn tells their story in this meticulously researched book. Using numerous Irish and U.S. sources and with descendants' help, she traces dozens of the evictees to Rutland, Vermont, as railroads and marble quarries transformed the local economy. She follows the immigrants up to 1870 and learns not only what happened to them but also what light American experience and records cast on their Irish "rebellion."

Author Biography

Mary Lee Dunn is a writer and editor affiliated with the graduate Department of Work Environment at the University of Massachusetts Lowell

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction and Methodology	p. xv
The Story of Ballykilcline	p. 1
Shifting Ground in Roscommon	p. 36
Resettling in Rutland	p. 71
To Battle with a "Two-Edged Sword"	p. 96
Family Paths	p. 108
Quarry Actions-Striking Again	p. 135
Still Standing in the Gale	p. 151
Afterword	p. 169
Appendix	p. 171
U.S. Census Searches for the Ballykilcline Immigrants
Literacy of Ballykilcline Immigrants per U.S. Censuses
Analysis of the Census Literacy Data
Assets of Quarry Men Either from Ballykilcline or Married to Women from Ballykilcline
Assets of Immigrants from Ballykilcline Who Had Become Farmers by 1870
Notes	p. 181
Works Cited	p. 191
Index	p. 203
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