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Many of the socially marginalized Irish immigrant women of this era made their living in domestic service. In contrast to immigrant men, who might have lived in a community with their fellow Irish, these women lived and worked in close contact with American families. Lynch-Brennan reveals the essential role this unique relationship played in shaping the place of the Irish in America today. Such women were instrumental in making the Irish presence more acceptable to earlier established American groups. At the same time, it was through the experience of domestic service that many Irish were acculturated, as these women absorbed the middle-class values of their patrons and passed them on to their own children. Drawing on personal correspondence and other primary sources, Lynch-Brennan gives voice to these young Irish women and celebrates their untold contribution to the ethnic history of the United States. In addition, recognizing the interest of scholars in contemporary domestic services, she devotes one chapter to comparing "Bridget’s" experience to that of other ethnic women over time in domestic service in America.
- Sales Rank: #252658 in Books
- Published on: 2014-06-05
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.06" h x .72" w x 6.30" l, .81 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 264 pages
About the Author
Margaret Lynch-Brennan recently retired from the New York State Education Department where she worked on issues related to civil rights, education reform, and professional development. She holds a Ph.D. in American history from SUNY Albany and has taught in SUNY Oneonta’s Cooperstown Graduate Program.
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful.
Letters Illustrate Irish Women's Domestic Service
By Story Circle Book Reviews
Margaret Lynch-Brennan, a woman of Irish descent, researched Irish immigrant women who worked as domestics in the northeast United States. Using letters written by the women servants, she compared images of life in Ireland during the famine with life for these women after they gained employment in their US employers' homes.
In addition to photographs of these women in their youth, the text illustrates their stories. Many came to work at the ages of 12-14 and often stayed with the same family for years. Their history comes alive as Lynch-Brennan shows them through their own words gleaned from their many letters to each other and to family in Ireland. But even though they had to live in attics or cellars, work long hours, and entertain their guests in the kitchen, these Irish women maintained a strongly optimistic attitude and even became defiant if their employers asked too much of them.
Many experienced religious discrimination as their employers did not appreciate employing Catholics who wanted to take time off to go to church. But the Irish Bridgets maintained their staunch independence by attending church, going to dances to see their friends and relatives, and writing the letters that inspired this book.
by Susan M. Andrus
for Story Circle Book Reviews
reviewing books by, for, and about women
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
The Irish Bridget
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I loved this book.My grandmother was a domestic in NYC for 4 years after she landed at Ellis Island. I could envision her world at that time while reading the chapters.
Do yourself a favor, Buy this book!!!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Well Written. Well Researched.
By Alohanaut
My grandmother emigrated from country Mayo to the UK, then sold her mother's linens to book passage from Liverpool to New York. She came to the US to work in domestic service. This book helps put her experience in perspective as part of a larger wave of emigration, provides some context for the life she left and the life she came to, and traces possible impact of this courageous group of immigrants. Thanks to the author for taking on the topic.
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