The Irish in New Orleans
By: Laura D. Kelley
Publisher: University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Lafayette
Language: eng
Number of pages: 383
ISBN-13: 9781935754534
Subjects: Irish Americans; History; Social life and customs
Description: Kelley tells the colorful, entertaining, and often adventurous history of the Irish in New Orleans. From Bloody O'Reilly in the eighteenth century to the great churches and charitable organizations built by the Irish Famine immigrants in the nineteenth century to the Irish-dominated politics of the twentieth century, and including Irish dance, music, and sports, the author introduces readers to a hitherto untold story of one of America's most historical cities.
Table of contents: title: How it all happened: a historic overview / Laura D. Kelley; title: Churches, charities, and communities / Laura D. Kelley; title: "My soul unto the hand of Almighty God...and my body to the Earth...": waking and burying the Irish of antebellum New Orleans / Terrence W. Fitzmorris; title: Power, politics, and prejudice / Laura D. Kelley; title: Fighting Irish: from faction fights to football / Laura D. Kelley & Perry S. Faulkner; title: Irish parades and organizations / John D. Fitzmorris; title: Below the sea, & above the fray: the story of Finn McCool's Irish Pub / Laura D. Kelley; title: The Irish influence on the New Orleans culinary landscape / Carrie Lee Pierson Schwartz; title: Seven years listening, seven years practicing, & seven years playing: one woman's tale of Irish music / Betsy McGovern; title: Keep calm and dance on / Laura D. Kelley; title: The face of Irish New Orleans / Laura D. Kelley & Carrie Lee Pierson Schwartz.