Introduction - Irish women and Irish migration; women "Wild Geese", 1585-1625 - Irish women and migration to European armies in the late 16th and early 17th centuries; "For love and liberty" - Irish women, migration and domesticity in Ireland and America, 1815-1920; superfluous and unwanted deadweight - the emigration of 19th-century Irish pauper women; geographies of migration and religion - Irish women in mid-19th-century Liverpool; Irish women workers and American labour patterns - the Philadelphia story; the migration experience of female-headed households - Gilford, County Down to Greenwich, New York, 1880-1910; "There was nothing for me there" - Irish female emigration, 1922-71; listening and learning - experiences in an emigrant advice agency; breaking the silence from a distance - Irish women speak on sexual abuse; "I'm myself and nobody else" - gender and ethnicity among young middle-class Irish women in London.
