Foreword: "Models for Movers"

Models for Movers is a unique collection of Irish migrant women's oral histories spanning three waves of twentieth-century emigration, skilfully brought together and contextualised by the author, Ide B. O 'Carroll. The women's voices speak to and against the regulated silences surrounding both emigration and Irish women's lives. They also provide a multi-generational tapestry of experience into which women leaving Ireland today can weave their stories.