I need help finding a book -

[matt819]

2. This probably isn't it, but

All standing : the true story of hunger, rebellion, and survival aboard the Jeanie Johnston / by Kathryn Miles. Released in January, publisher is Free Press.

Not an academic work, but a very readable and accessible slice of history. The focus is on one ship that in all of its runs between Ireland and Canada did not lose a single passenger to disease, a record, I think, among all of the ships called the coffin ships, for very obvious reasons.

I know there are hundreds of books about Irish history and Irish history wrt emigration to the US. I know little about the subject, but this book captures the history, and the process, and the effects. Well worth the time.