The Irish Americans
By: William D. Griffin
Series: The Immigrant experience; Immigrant experience
Publisher: Barnes & Noble
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780760784372
Subjects: Irish Americans
Description: Presents the powerful story of the forty million Irish Americans, descendants of the seven million who emigrated from Ireland to America over the last three centuries, in a richly textured portrait complete with paintings and vintage photographs.
Notes: Series statement on jacket.

Colored illustrations on lining papers.

Includes bibliographical references, Internet references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Ireland and the Irish; title: A habit of going abroad; title: The distant magnet (1690-1840); title: The famine era (1840-1860); title: America learns to cope with the Irish (1860-1890); title: The Irish learn how to cope with America (1890-1920); title: The vanishing Irish (1920-1960); title: The American Irish Renaissance (1960-); title: The immigrant experience and the quest for identity; title: Irish genealogy on the internet.