Laura Halferty
Author of
Irish Women in Oswego, 1855 and 1915
A Featured artist
on Echoes of Ireland Blog
Laura is a writer from right here in Jefferson County and has written her Master Thesis on Irish women in Oswego in the turn of the last Century. Its an incredible piece of work that shows the depth of character and ability to overcome that women of Women of Central and Northern NY had and continue to have up to today.
Please feel free to read on and thanks to our readers for sending me the link. Keep sending these great resources and I'll keep posting them. Read on..
The following study is an updated version of the research I completed for my
M.A. in History thesis (SUNY Oswego, 2000). In this latest incarnation, it is both a look
at Irish women immigrants’ lives in Oswego and a narrative of my own on-going
research process, which I hope will be useful to anyone else interested in tackling a
difficult topic in local history.
This isn’t the definitive work on Irish women in Oswego, nor is it intended to be,
which is why I’ve avoided making statements that read like ironclad theories. A study of
this sort would certainly benefit from primary sources written by Irish women and a
comprehensive analysis of larger census samples. My intent here, though, was simply to
begin at the beginning: to use censuses and other local history resources as a way of
sketching, in broad strokes, a portrait of Oswego’s Irish women immigrants and how
their lives may have changed over time. With the discovery of new sources, this portrait
will no doubt become more detailed in the decades to come.
which is why I’ve avoided making statements that read like ironclad theories. A study of
this sort would certainly benefit from primary sources written by Irish women and a
comprehensive analysis of larger census samples. My intent here, though, was simply to
begin at the beginning: to use censuses and other local history resources as a way of
sketching, in broad strokes, a portrait of Oswego’s Irish women immigrants and how
their lives may have changed over time. With the discovery of new sources, this portrait
will no doubt become more detailed in the decades to come.
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