| Description |
207 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
Coming to America |
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Coming to America (San Diego, Calif.)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-201) and index. |
| Contents |
ch. 1. Leaving Ireland -- 1. The first Irish immigrants / Nelson J. Callahan, William F. Hickey -- 2. A clash among canal workers / David Burr -- 3. Fleeing from famine / Judy Ball -- 4. Dangerous and unpleasant departures / Anonymous -- 5. Passages from an 1847 famine ship diary / Robert Whyte -- 6. Why America appealed to Irish immigrants / Arnold Schrier -- ch. 2. Life in the United Stares for famine immigrants -- 1. Living in the tenements of New York City / Thomas Gallagher -- 2. The anti-Catholic climate in nineteenth-century America / Charles R. Morris -- 3. A continuous struggle : Irish workers in mid-nineteenth-century America / Ronald Takaki -- ch. 3. Pain, progress, and assimilation -- 1. The Irish in the Civil War / Carl Wittke -- 2. The new York draft riots / New York Times -- 3. The Irish style in politics / William V. Shannon -- 4. Crowded conditions : a firsthand view of a tenement / William Dean Howells -- 5. Irish workers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Kevin Kenny -- 6. Illegal Irish immigrants / John Doherty -- ch. 4. Portraits of Irish Americans -- 1. John L. Sullivan/ William D. Griffin -- 2. Joseph P. Kennedy / David Burner -- 3. Frank McCourt / interview by the Academy of Achievement -- 4. Gabriel Byrne / interview by Brad Balfour -- Chronology. |
| Subject |
Irish Americans -- History.
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Immigrants -- United States -- History.
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| Added Author |
Price Hossell, Karen, 1957-
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| ISBN |
0737721545 library binding alkaline paper |
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9780737721546 library binding alkaline paper |
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0737721553 paperback alkaline paper |
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9780737721553 paperback alkaline paper |
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