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Immigration

Out of Ireland: The Story Of Irish Emigration To America

From the book 'Out of Ireland' with permission from Elliott & Clark

July/August 1994

July 23, 1994 by Leave a Comment

Out of Ireland, a documentary film by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Paul Wagner, had its first public showing at the New York Lincoln Center Irish Film Festival in June, and will air on PBS television stations sometime this fall or next spring. Using as its primary source the remarkable memoirs and letters written by and to Irish immigrants in America, from Kerby Miller's … [Read more...] about Out of Ireland: The Story Of Irish Emigration To America

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