Author: Kerby Miller
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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A three-dimensional book featuring images and documents of Irish immigrants.

Author: Megan O'Hara
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 9780736807951
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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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.

Author: Elizabeth Raum
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1429611804
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 114

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"3 story paths, 43 choices, 15 endings"--Cover.

Author: Kerby Miller
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781568332116
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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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.

Author: David T. Gleeson
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807875635
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296

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The only comprehensive study of Irish immigrants in the nineteenth-century South, this book makes a valuable contribution to the story of the Irish in America and to our understanding of southern culture. The Irish who migrated to the Old South struggled to make a new home in a land where they were viewed as foreigners and were set apart by language, high rates of illiteracy, and their own self-identification as temporary exiles from famine and British misrule. They countered this isolation by creating vibrant, tightly knit ethnic communities in the cities and towns across the South where they found work, usually menial jobs. Finding strength in their communities, Irish immigrants developed the confidence to raise their voices in the public arena, forcing native southerners to recognize and accept them--first politically, then socially. The Irish integrated into southern society without abandoning their ethnic identity. They displayed their loyalty by fighting for the Confederacy during the Civil War and in particular by opposing the Radical Reconstruction that followed. By 1877, they were a unique part of the "Solid South." Unlike the Irish in other parts of the United States, the Irish in the South had to fit into a regional culture as well as American culture in general. By following their attempts to become southerners, we learn much about the unique experience of ethnicity in the American South.

Author: Kerby A. Miller
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780195348224
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 820

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Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan is a monumental and pathbreaking study of early Irish Protestant and Catholic migration to America. Through exhaustive research and sensitive analyses of the letters, memoirs, and other writings, the authors describe the variety and vitality of early Irish immigrant experiences, ranging from those of frontier farmers and seaport workers to revolutionaries and loyalists. Largely through the migrants own words, it brings to life the networks, work, and experiences of these immigrants who shaped the formative stages of American society and its Irish communities. The authors explore why Irishmen and women left home and how they adapted to colonial and revolutionary America, in the process creating modern Irish and Irish-American identities on the two sides of the Atlantic Ocean. Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan was the winner of the James S. Donnelly, Sr., Prize for Books on History and Social Sciences, American Council on Irish Studies.

Author: John Francis Maguire
Publisher: New York, Montreal, D. & J. Sadlier
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 684

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Author: Thomas D'Arcy McGee
Publisher: Boston : American Celt Office ; New York : Dunigan & Brother
ISBN:
Category : Irish
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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Author: Shane Heaney
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN: 1508140952
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 26

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It took the Scotch-Irish two major migrations before finding their home in America. Readers will follow the Scotch-Irish as they move from Scotland to Ireland, finding their own set of challenges there. Faced with famine and drought, the Scotch then moved to America. Readers will learn about the pioneering spirit of the Scotch Irish as they settle on the American frontier and built a strong cultural legacy. Primary sources and artwork are paired with exciting text to give readers a dynamic learning experience. An excellent addition to social studies programs, this book gives a thorough look into the causes and effects of the Scotch-Irish migration.

Author: Jay P. Dolan
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1608190102
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 355

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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 the highest office in the land.