Title: Minnesota's Irish
First published: 1984
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.
Subjects: History, Irish Americans, Irish, Minnesota, Emigration and immigration
Places: Minnesota, Saint Paul (Minn.), Saint Paul
LC classification: F615.I6 J64 1984