The Irish Americans
Subtitle: A History
Publisher: Bloomsbury Press
Published: February 2, 2010
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9781608190102
Subjects: History -- Americas -- United States; History -- Europe -- Ireland; History -- Historical Study -- Social History; History -- World; Nonfiction -- Social Sciences -- Special Groups -- Ethnic Studies
Table of contents: title: Part one : The forgotten era, 1700-1840.; title: Here come the Irish; title: A time of transition; title: Part two : The famine generation and beyond, 1840-1920.; title: The Great Hunger; title: From paddies to patriots; title: The Catholic Irish; title: Born to rule; title: Strike; title: Nation among nations; title: Part three : Becoming American, 1920-1960.; title: Up from the city streets; title: Irish Catholicism's Golden Age; title: City Hall and the union hall; title: Part four : Irish and American, 1960-2000.; title: The triumph of the Irish; title: It's chic to be Irish