The Columbia guide to Irish American history / Timothy Meagher.
"Timothy J. Meagher fuses an overview of Irish American history with an analysis of historians' debates, an annotated bibliography, a chronology of critical events, and a glossary discussing crucial individuals, organizations, and dates. He addresses a range of key issues in Irish American...
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2005]
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Table of Contents:
- I: A history of Irish Americans from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century
- Introduction : the Irish as immigrants and ethnics
- Irish immigration to colonial America
- Irish America from the revolution to the famine
- The famine years
- The turn of the twentieth century
- The twentieth century
- The 1960s to the present
- II: Issues and themes in Irish American history
- Irish American gender and family
- Irish Americans in politics
- Irish American nationalism
- Irish Americans and race
- III: Important people, organizations, events, and terms
- IV: Chronology of Irish America.