Author: Ray O'Hanlon
Publisher: Merrion Press
ISBN: 1785373803
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
Unintended Consequences reveals how America’s door closed on legal Irish immigration in the 1960s, and how America’s Irish mounted a counterattack when nation-changing political forces were sweeping the country during the era of civil rights, political assassinations, and the Vietnam War. This book looks at the full historical background to Irish migration across the Atlantic, how it helped shape the young republic, and how the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 brought a near total halt to this westward flow. Nevertheless, the Irish would not be denied and continued to make the journey, no longer into the light of a full and legal American life, but rather into the shadows of an undocumented existence. Successive organisations championed the undocumented Irish, and the fight continues to this day, but this is a new America, where, in recent years, there has been growing hostility to immigrants of every nationality. Ray O’Hanlon has spent over three decades reporting on battles over comprehensive U.S. immigration reform, and Unintended Consequences is the story of the Irish past, its present, and most uncertain future in the ‘land of the free,’ now in the presidency of Joe Biden, a man who fully embraces his Irish immigrant family story. Through Biden, the great Irish of America story continues, and with renewed hope.
Unintended Consequences
Author: Ray O'Hanlon
Publisher: Merrion Press
ISBN: 1785373803
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
Unintended Consequences reveals how America’s door closed on legal Irish immigration in the 1960s, and how America’s Irish mounted a counterattack when nation-changing political forces were sweeping the country during the era of civil rights, political assassinations, and the Vietnam War. This book looks at the full historical background to Irish migration across the Atlantic, how it helped shape the young republic, and how the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 brought a near total halt to this westward flow. Nevertheless, the Irish would not be denied and continued to make the journey, no longer into the light of a full and legal American life, but rather into the shadows of an undocumented existence. Successive organisations championed the undocumented Irish, and the fight continues to this day, but this is a new America, where, in recent years, there has been growing hostility to immigrants of every nationality. Ray O’Hanlon has spent over three decades reporting on battles over comprehensive U.S. immigration reform, and Unintended Consequences is the story of the Irish past, its present, and most uncertain future in the ‘land of the free,’ now in the presidency of Joe Biden, a man who fully embraces his Irish immigrant family story. Through Biden, the great Irish of America story continues, and with renewed hope.
Publisher: Merrion Press
ISBN: 1785373803
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
Unintended Consequences reveals how America’s door closed on legal Irish immigration in the 1960s, and how America’s Irish mounted a counterattack when nation-changing political forces were sweeping the country during the era of civil rights, political assassinations, and the Vietnam War. This book looks at the full historical background to Irish migration across the Atlantic, how it helped shape the young republic, and how the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 brought a near total halt to this westward flow. Nevertheless, the Irish would not be denied and continued to make the journey, no longer into the light of a full and legal American life, but rather into the shadows of an undocumented existence. Successive organisations championed the undocumented Irish, and the fight continues to this day, but this is a new America, where, in recent years, there has been growing hostility to immigrants of every nationality. Ray O’Hanlon has spent over three decades reporting on battles over comprehensive U.S. immigration reform, and Unintended Consequences is the story of the Irish past, its present, and most uncertain future in the ‘land of the free,’ now in the presidency of Joe Biden, a man who fully embraces his Irish immigrant family story. Through Biden, the great Irish of America story continues, and with renewed hope.
The Irish in America
Author: John Francis Maguire
Publisher: New York, Montreal, D. & J. Sadlier
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 682
Book Description
Publisher: New York, Montreal, D. & J. Sadlier
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 682
Book Description
Out of Ireland
Author: Kerby Miller
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781568332116
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Two centuries of Irish emigration to the U.S. are portrayed through rare photos and the letters of emigrants writing of their New World experiences.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781568332116
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Two centuries of Irish emigration to the U.S. are portrayed through rare photos and the letters of emigrants writing of their New World experiences.
Irish Immigrants, 1840-1920
Author: Megan O'Hara
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 9780736807951
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Discusses the reasons Irish people left their homeland to come to America, the experiences immigrants had in the new country, and the contributions this cultural group made to American society. Includes sidebars and activities.
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 9780736807951
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Discusses the reasons Irish people left their homeland to come to America, the experiences immigrants had in the new country, and the contributions this cultural group made to American society. Includes sidebars and activities.
Ireland's New Worlds
Author: Malcolm Campbell
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 0299223337
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
In the century between the Napoleonic Wars and the Irish Civil War, more than seven million Irish men and women left their homeland to begin new lives abroad. While the majority settled in the United States, Irish emigrants dispersed across the globe, many of them finding their way to another “New World,” Australia. Ireland’s New Worlds is the first book to compare Irish immigrants in the United States and Australia. In a profound challenge to the national histories that frame most accounts of the Irish diaspora, Malcolm Campbell highlights the ways that economic, social, and cultural conditions shaped distinct experiences for Irish immigrants in each country, and sometimes in different parts of the same country. From differences in the level of hostility that Irish immigrants faced to the contrasting economies of the United States and Australia, Campbell finds that there was much more to the experiences of Irish immigrants than their essential “Irishness.” America’s Irish, for example, were primarily drawn into the population of unskilled laborers congregating in cities, while Australia’s Irish, like their fellow colonialists, were more likely to engage in farming. Campbell shows how local conditions intersected with immigrants’ Irish backgrounds and traditions to create surprisingly varied experiences in Ireland’s new worlds. Outstanding Book, selected by the American Association of School Librarians, and Best Books for Special Interests, selected by the Public Library Association “Well conceived and thoroughly researched . . . . This clearly written, thought-provoking work fulfills the considerable ambitions of comparative migration studies.”—Choice
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 0299223337
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
In the century between the Napoleonic Wars and the Irish Civil War, more than seven million Irish men and women left their homeland to begin new lives abroad. While the majority settled in the United States, Irish emigrants dispersed across the globe, many of them finding their way to another “New World,” Australia. Ireland’s New Worlds is the first book to compare Irish immigrants in the United States and Australia. In a profound challenge to the national histories that frame most accounts of the Irish diaspora, Malcolm Campbell highlights the ways that economic, social, and cultural conditions shaped distinct experiences for Irish immigrants in each country, and sometimes in different parts of the same country. From differences in the level of hostility that Irish immigrants faced to the contrasting economies of the United States and Australia, Campbell finds that there was much more to the experiences of Irish immigrants than their essential “Irishness.” America’s Irish, for example, were primarily drawn into the population of unskilled laborers congregating in cities, while Australia’s Irish, like their fellow colonialists, were more likely to engage in farming. Campbell shows how local conditions intersected with immigrants’ Irish backgrounds and traditions to create surprisingly varied experiences in Ireland’s new worlds. Outstanding Book, selected by the American Association of School Librarians, and Best Books for Special Interests, selected by the Public Library Association “Well conceived and thoroughly researched . . . . This clearly written, thought-provoking work fulfills the considerable ambitions of comparative migration studies.”—Choice
A History of the Irish Settlers in North America
Author: Thomas D'Arcy McGee
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Irish
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Irish
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Irish Emigration to the United States: what it Has Been, and what it is
Author: Rev. Stephen Byrne
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Journey of Hope
Author: Kerby Miller
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
A three-dimensional book featuring images and documents of Irish immigrants.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
A three-dimensional book featuring images and documents of Irish immigrants.
The Irish Emigrant's Guide for the United States
Author: John O'Hanlon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Emigrants and Exiles
Author: Kerby A. Miller
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780195051872
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
Explains the reasons for the large Irish emigration, and examines the problems they faced adjusting to new lives in the United States.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780195051872
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
Explains the reasons for the large Irish emigration, and examines the problems they faced adjusting to new lives in the United States.