Erin's Daughters in America

Hasia Diner is professor of American Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is the author of Erin's Daughters in America and A Time for Gathering: The Second Migration, 1820-1880 (Volume II in the series The Jewish People in America), both available from Johns Hopkins.

The most sensitive treatment of Irish culture... [and] the most complete history we have of the Irish female experience. Labor History A vision of women with their own economic aspirations, actively engaged in the climb towards financial security. Women's Review of Books