European Migrants in Eighteenth Century Ireland

A study of an unexpected large-scale migration, of the many issues it gave rise to, and of its aftermath. Although Ireland is usually thought of as a place from which people emigrate, there was in the early eighteenth century a significant immigration to Ireland of 'poor Palatines' from southwestern states of the Holy Roman Empire. This book explores this mass immigration and the related issues. It outlines what caused the sudden movement of so many people in one six-month period - successive wa