Interest in the Great Irish Famine and Irish immigration to America
remains high. Somewhat less attention, however, has been paid to
those who stayed, those who wouldn't or couldn't leave. Published
nearly forty years ago, Arnold Schrier's Ireland and the American
Emigration was the first book to try to understand the effects of
this exodus upon Ireland itself.
Schrier shows how the emigration affected Ireland's economy in
such areas as labor supply, wages, agricultural methods, housing,
and the development of industry, demonstrating that things actually
improved at home as more and more people left. He describes the
protests of the Irish newspapers and the Irish Catholic Church
against the steady drain of the population. Drawing on hundreds of
emigrants' letters collected by the author, he vividly describes
the effects of emigration upon the customs and folkways of the
people, and the unique ceremony of the "american wake" that
celebrated the departure of relatives and friends. Schrier's
fascinating history ultimately reveals to us a new Ireland, a
post-Famine, post-emigration Ireland ready to step boldly into the
economic and political maelstrom of the twentieth century.
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