Chief O'Neill's Sketchy Recollections of an Eventful Life in Chicago
Chief O'Neill's Sketchy Recollections of an Eventful Life in Chicago

Author: Francis O'Neill

Publisher: Northwestern University Press

Published: 2008-01-18

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 0810124653

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This remarkable memoir of immigration and assimilation provides a rare view of urban life in Chicago in the late 1800s by a newcomer to the city and the Midwest, and the nation as well. Francis O'Neill left Ireland in 1865. After five years traveling the world as a sailor, he and his family settled in Chicago just shortly before the Great Fire of 1871. His memoir also brings to life the challenges involved in succeeding in a new land, providing for his family, and integrating into a new culture. Francis O'Neill serves as a fine documentarian of the Irish immigrant experience in Chicago.

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Author: Donna Jo Napoli

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2014-12-30

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 1442483008

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When a marauding slave ship captures her sister, Melkorka, eight-year-old Brigid is lost at sea but survives, disguised as a boy, and sets out to rescue Melkorka, and as the years pass she becomes a woman, reputed to be fierce enough to conquer a man, but desirous only of reuniting with her family.