Irish in Minnesota

Irish in Minnesota

Author: Ann Regan

Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press

Published: 2009-06-26

Total Pages: 89

ISBN-13: 0873516737

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As farmers and laborers, policemen and politicians, maids and seamstresses, Irish immigrants' hard work helped to build the state. Author Ann Regan examines their history and tells the diverse stories of the Irish in Minnesota.


Forgetting Ireland

Forgetting Ireland

Author: Bridget Connelly

Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 9780873514491

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The immigrants were at last removed from the colony; their name became the town's shorthand for lying, drunken failures.".


Immigrants in the Valley

Immigrants in the Valley

Author: Mark Wyman

Publisher: SIU Press

Published: 2016-11-09

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 0809335565

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This book shows the interplay between the major groups traveling the roads and waterways of the Upper Mississippi Valley during the crucial decades of 1830 - 1860. It's a lively, extensively-illustrated account which will help Americans everywhere better understand their diverse heritage.


The Bohemian Flats

The Bohemian Flats

Author: Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of Minnesota

Publisher:

Published: 1941

Total Pages: 78

ISBN-13:

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German and Irish Immigrants in the Midwestern United States, 1850–1900

German and Irish Immigrants in the Midwestern United States, 1850–1900

Author: Regina Donlon

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-06-29

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 3319787381

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In the second half of the nineteenth century, hundreds of thousands of German and Irish immigrants left Europe for the United States. Many settled in the Northeast, but some boarded trains and made their way west. Focusing on the cities of Fort Wayne, Indiana and St Louis, Missouri, Regina Donlon employs comparative and transnational methodologies in order to trace their journeys from arrival through their emergence as cultural, social and political forces in their communities. Drawing comparisons between large, industrial St Louis and small, established Fort Wayne and between the different communities which took root there, Donlon offers new insights into the factors which shaped their experiences—including the impact of city size on the preservation of ethnic identity, the contrasting concerns of the German and Irish Catholic churches and the roles of women as social innovators. This unique multi-ethnic approach illuminates overlooked dimensions of the immigrant experience in the American Midwest.


Minnesota

Minnesota

Author: William E. Lass

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2000-08

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9780393319712

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A comprehensive history of a state thought by many to be the most livable.


Ballykilcline Rising

Ballykilcline Rising

Author: Mary Lee Dunn

Publisher:

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13:

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How tenant farmers evicted from Ireland made a new life in the United States


St. Paul

St. Paul

Author: Bill Lindeke

Publisher: Urban Biography

Published: 2021-05

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 9781681342009

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A concise history, featuring stories that are familiar, surprising, and sure to change the way you see Minnesota's capitol city.


The WPA Guide to Minnesota

The WPA Guide to Minnesota

Author: Federal Writers' Project

Publisher: Trinity University Press

Published: 2013-10-31

Total Pages: 426

ISBN-13: 1595342214

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During the 1930s in the United States, the Works Progress Administration developed the Federal Writers’ Project to support writers and artists while making a national effort to document the country’s shared history and culture. The American Guide series consists of individual guides to each of the states. Little-known authors—many of whom would later become celebrated literary figures—were commissioned to write these important books. John Steinbeck, Saul Bellow, Zora Neale Hurston, and Ralph Ellison are among the more than 6,000 writers, editors, historians, and researchers who documented this celebration of local histories. Photographs, drawings, driving tours, detailed descriptions of towns, and rich cultural details exhibit each state’s unique flavor. The Land of Ten Thousand Lakes is well represented in this WPA Guide to Minnesota. From the Grand Portage State Park to the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area, the reader is taken on a journey through this Midwestern state as it was in the early 20th century. In total, it profiles 47 cities and towns but emphasizes outdoor recreation, which is significant in the North Star State.