The Irish Americans a history
Follows the Irish from their first arrival in the American colonies through the bleak days of the potato famine, the decades of ethnic prejudice and nativist discrimination, the rise of Irish political power, and on to the historic moment when John F. Kennedy was elected to this highest office in th...
| Main Author: | Dolan, Jay P., 1936- |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Bloomsbury Press,
2008.
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| Edition: | 1st U.S. ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- A forgotten era, 1700-1840. Here come the Irish ; A time of transition
- The famine generation and beyond, 1840-1920. The great hunger ; From paddies to patriots ; The Catholic Irish ; Born to rule ; Strike ; Nation among nations
- Becoming American, 1920-1960. Up from the city streets ; Irish Catholicism's golden age ; City Hall and the union hall
- Irish and American, 1960-2000. The triumph of the Irish ; It's chic to be Irish.