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.".


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 Streel

The Streel

Author: Mary Logue

Publisher: U of Minnesota Press

Published: 2020-05-12

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 145296243X

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Women Writing the West WILLA Award Finalist From “the reigning royalty of Minnesota murder mysteries” (The Rake) comes a striking new heroine: a young Irish immigrant caught up in a deadly plot in nineteenth-century Deadwood When I was fifteen and my brother Seamus sixteen, we attended our own wake. Our family was in mourning, forced to send us off to America. The year is 1880, and of all the places Brigid Reardon and her brother might have dreamed of when escaping Ireland’s potato famine by moving to America, Deadwood, South Dakota, was not one of them. But Deadwood, in the grip of gold fever, is where Seamus lands and where Brigid joins him after eluding the unwanted attentions of the son of her rich employer in St. Paul—or so she hopes. But the morning after her arrival, a grisly tragedy occurs; Seamus, suspected of the crime, flees, and Brigid is left to clear his name and to manage his mining claim, which suddenly looks more valuable and complicated than he and his partners supposed. Mary Logue, author of the popular Claire Watkins mysteries, brings her signature brio and nerve to this story of a young Irish woman turned reluctant sleuth as she tries to make her way in a strange and often dangerous new world. From the famine-stricken city of Galway to the bustling New York harbor, to the mansions of Summit Avenue in St. Paul, and finally to the raucous hustle of boomtown Deadwood, Logue’s new thriller conjures the romance and the perils, and the tricky everyday realities, of a young immigrant surviving by her wits and grace in nineteenth-century America.


Irish Chicago

Irish Chicago

Author: John Gerard McLaughlin

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780738520384

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Uses vintage photographs to present a visual history of Chicago's Irish heritage, from the great waves of migration to the present day.


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.


Ulysses

Ulysses

Author: James Joyce

Publisher: McClelland & Stewart

Published: 2022-01-04

Total Pages: 709

ISBN-13: 0735254621

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Loosely based on The Odyssey, this landmark of modern literature follows ordinary Dubliners in 1904. Capturing a single day in the life of Dubliner Leopold Bloom, his friends Buck Mulligan and Stephen Dedalus, his wife Molly, and a scintillating cast of supporting characters, Joyce pushes Celtic lyricism and vulgarity to splendid extremes. Captivating experimental techniques range from interior monologues to exuberant wordplay and earthy humor, resulting in a major achievement in twentieth-century literature. Penguin Random House Canada is proud to bring you classic works of literature in e-book form, with the highest quality production values. Find more today and rediscover books you never knew you loved.


Irish Iowa

Irish Iowa

Author: Timothy Walch

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2019-03-04

Total Pages: 145

ISBN-13: 1439666296

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Iowa offered freedom and prosperity to the Irish fleeing famine and poverty. They became the second-largest immigrant group to come to the state, and they acquired influence well beyond their numbers. The first hospitals, schools and asylums in the area were established by Irish nuns. Irish laborers laid the tracks and ran the trains that transported crops to market. Kate Shelley became a national heroine when she saved a passenger train from plunging off a bridge. The Sullivan family became the symbol of sacrifice when they lost their five sons in World War II. Author Timothy Walch details these stories and more on the history and influence of the Irish in the Heartland.


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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Irish Famines Before and After the Great Hunger

Irish Famines Before and After the Great Hunger

Author: Christine Kinealy

Publisher:

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 9780578484983

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The Great Hunger of 1845 to 1852 cast a long shadow over the subsequent history of Ireland and its diaspora. Since 1995, there has been a renewed interest in studying this event, not only by history scholars and students, but by archeologists, artists, musicians, scientists, folklorists, etc., all of which has added greatly to our understanding of this tragic event.The focus on the Great Hunger, however, has overshadowed other periods of famine and food shortages in Ireland and their impact on a society in which poverty, hunger, emigration and even excess mortality, were part of the life cycle and not unique to the 1840s. This publication re-examines some of the forgotten famines that not only shaped Ireland's history, but the histories of the many countries in which successive waves of emigrants chose to settle.