The Irish in Rhode Island
Author: Patrick T. Conley
Publisher: Rhode Island Publications Soc
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 46
ISBN-13: 9780917012839
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Author: Patrick T. Conley
Publisher: Rhode Island Publications Soc
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 46
ISBN-13: 9780917012839
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: George William McLaughlin
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Published: 1965
Total Pages: 76
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Thomas Hamilton Murray
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Published: 1904
Total Pages: 36
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Mary E. Walsh
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Published: 1937
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Scott Molloy
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9781584656906
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1847 Joseph Banigan, an Irish Potato Famine refugee, established himself in Rhode Island as an entrepreneur. This was a time when "No Irish Need Apply" signs abounded and discrimination against the Irish and other immigrants--institutionalized in the constitution of his adopted state--hindered voting and other human rights. Bucking this trend and belying his humble origins, Banigan succeeded spectacularly in the emerging local rubber footwear industry, becoming the president of the United States Rubber Company--one of the nation's major cartels, and New England's first Irish-Catholic millionaire. Backed by primary and secondary research on two continents, Molloy's inquiry into Bannigan's notoriety and success singularly codifies and elucidates the Irish-American experience during this critical period in American labor history.
Author: Sister Mary Edward Walsh
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Published: 1937
Total Pages: 53
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Published: 1903
Total Pages: 108
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Published: 2005
Total Pages: 129
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William McLoughlin
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1986-06-17
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780393302714
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith a Historical Guide prepared by the editors of the American Association for State and Local History. High atop the Rhode Island capitol in Providence, a bronze likeness of "The Independent Man" keeps watch over a state that historically has put the ideal of individual liberty before all others. Like many ideals, this one was freighted with many meanings. As the colony grew in the seventeenth century, the belief in religious liberty and freedom of conscience espoused by its founder, Roger Williams, led to the development of political liberty and practical democracy. In the eighteenth century, that dedication to individualism made Rhode Islanders into businessmen of the first order, willing to take the big risk in hope of a bigger reward. Their land being poor in natural resources, Rhode Islanders turned to trade; accumulating wealth from traffic in rum and slaves, they built in Newport and Providence small but elegant copies of Georgian England, and worried more about taxes and currency than about religion. When they felt poorly served by British policies, they became ready revolutionaries and led in the founding of a new nation. After the Civil War, their children took individual liberty to mean economic laissez-faire, ushering in the state's golden age when Rhode Island senator Nelson Aldrich became known as the "general manager" of the United States. Through countless changes in the twentieth century, the ideal still survives and asks old questions of new generations of Rhode Islanders from many ethnic backgrounds: How best to reconcile the rights of minorities with the rule of the majority, and how best to secure the individual liberty and economic opportunity that Roger Williams and Moses Brown would have understood so well?
Author: Thomas Hamilton Murray
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Published: 1904
Total Pages: 27
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