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Catherine Healy

Catherine Healy is the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) Historian-in-Residence at EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum, in Ireland, having previously studied at Trinity College Dublin.

Irish Domestic Servants in Transatlantic Culture, c. 1870-1945

Irish Domestic Servants in Transatlantic Culture, c. 1870-1945

This book provides the first major transatlantic history of Irish serving women, drawing on four years of archival research in Dublin, Belfast, New York, Boston, London and Liverpool. Domestic service was the largest source of employment for generations of women who left Ireland in the decades after the Great Famine.

Irish Domestic Servants in Transatlantic Culture, c. 1870-1945

Irish Domestic Servants in Transatlantic Culture, c. 1870-1945

This book provides the first major transatlantic history of Irish serving women, drawing on four years of archival research in Dublin, Belfast, New York, Boston, London and Liverpool. Domestic service was the largest source of employment for generations of women who left Ireland in the decades after the Great Famine.