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.

The Dukes of Ormonde, 1610-1745
The Dukes of Ormonde, 1610-1745

Author: Toby Christopher Barnard

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9780851157610

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Biographical studies of the two Dukes of Ormonde illuminate aspects of the operation of political power in seventeenth-century Ireland, and, on a wider European stage, the predicaments facing the nobility.