The Irish Americans : a history / Jay P. Dolan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dolan, Jay P., 1936-2023.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Irish Americans--History.

Irish Americans.

History.

Physical Description:

xi, 352 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Edition:

First U.S. edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2008.

Summary:

Follows the Irish from their first arrival in the American colonies through the bleak days of the potato famine, the decades of ethnic prejudice and nativist discrimination, the rise of Irish political power, and on to the historic moment when John F. Kennedy was elected to this highest office in the land.

Contents:

The forgotten era, 1700-1840

The famine generation and beyond, 1840-1920

Becoming American, 1920-1960

Irish and American, 1960-2000.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [313]-336) and index.

ISBN:

159691419X

9781596914193

OCLC:

191847002