Minnesota's Irish
By: Patricia Condon Johnston.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Johnston Pub. Inc.
Published: 1984
Place of publication: Afton, Minn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 92
Subjects: Irish Americans -- Minnesota -- History.; Irish Americans -- Minnesota -- Saint Paul -- History.; Minnesota -- History.; Saint Paul (Minn.) -- History.
Description: Although there were Irish in Minnesota in pre-territorial times, the first Irish settlement was established in the 1850s in Jessenland. A generation later, between 1876 and 1881, Archbishop John Ireland sponsored a Catholic colonization program that brought thousands of Irish families to farms in southwestern Minnesota.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 91-92.