Bringing together leading authorities on Irish women and migration, this book offers a significant reassessment of women's place in the Irish diaspora. While no longer one of Donald Akenson's 'great unknowns' of Irish migration history, and despite increasing scholarly attention, women's experience remains marginal in many general accounts of migration and diaspora. This book aims to redress this scholarly imbalance by comparing Irish women across the globe, setting this research in the context of recent theoretical developments in the study of diaspora. In particular, it represents an important reassessment of the periodisation of the Irish diaspora, with a number of contributors assessing Irish women's migration during the early and mid-part of the twentieth century. The collection demonstrates the important role played by women in the construction of Irish diasporic identities, assessing Irish women's experience in Britain, Canada, New Zealand and the United States. Moreover, it shifts discussion about women and the Irish diaspora away from the United States, and reasserts the importance of Britain for Irish women's migration. This book develops a conversation between other locations of the Irish diaspora and the dominant story about the USA and, in the process, brings into view the complexity and heterogeneity of Irish diasporan locations and experiences. This interdisciplinary collection, featuring chapters by Breda Gray, Louise Ryan and Bronwen Walter, will appeal to scholars and students of the Irish diaspora and women's migration.