The Irish on the Prairies
Author: Thomas Ambrose Butler
Publisher:
Published: 1874
Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13:
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Irish Iowa
Author: Timothy Walch
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2019-03-04
Total Pages: 145
ISBN-13: 1439666296
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIowa 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 Prairie Train
Author: Antoine O Flatharta
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Published: 2014-04-30
Total Pages: 40
ISBN-13: 0385756151
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Once upon a time there was a train that dreamed of being a boat." It was the train that took immigrants seeking a better life in the New World across the endless flat prairies to San Francisco. And it was the train that took Conor, a small homesick boy from Ireland, on the voyage he would remember for the rest of his life. While on that train, Conor dreams of being back in Connemara, Ireland, with his grandfather when suddenly, to his amazement, the waving prairie grass becomes the sea and the train on which he is traveling, like a boat, sails across it right back to his home. How Conor comes to realize that the home he's left behind will always be with him provides a reassuring and deeply satisfying resolution to this poignant tale. The dreamlike paintings by Caldecott Honor artist Eric Rohmann combine with the lyrical text of Irish playwright Antoine Ó Flatharta to make this one of the most memorable books of this--or any--season.
The Irish in Illinois
Author: Mathieu W. Billings
Publisher: SIU Press
Published: 2021-03-04
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 0809338009
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first statewide history of the Irish in the Prairie State Today over a million people in Illinois claim Irish ancestry and celebrate their love for Ireland. In this concise narrative history, authors Mathieu W. Billings and Sean Farrell bring together both familiar and unheralded stories of the Irish in Illinois, highlighting the critical roles these immigrants and their descendants played in the settlement and the making of the Prairie State. Short biographies and twenty-eight photographs vividly illustrate the significance and diversity of Irish contributions to Illinois. Billings and Farrell remind us of the countless ways Irish men and women have shaped the history and culture of the state. They fought in the French and Indian War, the American Revolution, the Civil War, and two world wars; built the state’s infrastructure and worked in its factories; taught Illinois children and served the poor. Irish political leaders helped to draw up the state’s first constitution, served in city, county, and state offices, and created a machine that dominated twentieth-century politics in Chicago and the state. This lively history adds to our understanding of the history of the Irish in the state over the past two hundred fifty years. Illinoisans and Midwesterners celebrating their connections to Ireland will treasure this rich and important account of the state’s history.
Atlantic Canada's Irish Immigrants
Author: Lucille H. Campey
Publisher: Dundurn
Published: 2016-08-06
Total Pages: 425
ISBN-13: 1459730240
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChallenging the commonplace view that the Irish immigration saga was primarily driven by dire events in Ireland, Lucille Campey’s groundbreaking work redraws the picture of early Irish settlement in Atlantic Canada. Extensively documented, and drawing on all known passenger lists of the period, the book is essential reading.
The Irish in America
Author: John Francis Maguire
Publisher: New York, Montreal, D. & J. Sadlier
Published: 1868
Total Pages: 682
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe British and Irish in Oklahoma
Author: Patrick J. Blessing
Publisher:
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 96
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1980, the University of Oklahoma Press published a ten-book series titled Newcomers to a New Land that described and analyzed the role of the major ethnic groups that have contributed to the history of Oklahoma. The series was part of Oklahoma Image, a project sponsored by the Oklahoma Department of Libraries and the Oklahoma Library Association and made possible by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. In response to numerous requests, the University of Oklahoma Press has reissued all ten volumes in the series. Published unaltered from the original editions, these books continue to have both historical and cultural value for reasons the series editorial committee stated as well. "Though not large in number as compared to those in some states, immigrants from various European nations left a marked impact on Oklahoma's history. As in the larger United States, they worked in many economic and social roles that enriched the state's life. Indians have played a crucial part in Oklahoma's history, even to giving the state her name. Blacks and Mexicans have also fulfilled a special set of roles, and will continue to affect Oklahoma's future. The history of each of these groups is unique, well worth remembering to both their heirs and to other people in the state and nation. Their stories come from the past, but continue on the future."
Irish Chicago
Author: John Gerard McLaughlin
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780738520384
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUses vintage photographs to present a visual history of Chicago's Irish heritage, from the great waves of migration to the present day.
Forgetting Ireland
Author: Bridget Connelly
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9780873514491
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe immigrants were at last removed from the colony; their name became the town's shorthand for lying, drunken failures.".
When the Irish Invaded Canada
Author: Christopher Klein
Publisher: Anchor
Published: 2019-03-12
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 0385542615
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Christopher Klein's fresh telling of this story is an important landmark in both Irish and American history." —James M. McPherson Just over a year after Robert E. Lee relinquished his sword, a band of Union and Confederate veterans dusted off their guns. But these former foes had no intention of reigniting the Civil War. Instead, they fought side by side to undertake one of the most fantastical missions in military history: to seize the British province of Canada and to hold it hostage until the independence of Ireland was secured. By the time that these invasions--known collectively as the Fenian raids--began in 1866, Ireland had been Britain's unwilling colony for seven hundred years. Thousands of Civil War veterans who had fled to the United States rather than perish in the wake of the Great Hunger still considered themselves Irishmen first, Americans second. With the tacit support of the U.S. government and inspired by a previous generation of successful American revolutionaries, the group that carried out a series of five attacks on Canada--the Fenian Brotherhood--established a state in exile, planned prison breaks, weathered infighting, stockpiled weapons, and assassinated enemies. Defiantly, this motley group, including a one-armed war hero, an English spy infiltrating rebel forces, and a radical who staged his own funeral, managed to seize a piece of Canada--if only for three days. When the Irish Invaded Canada is the untold tale of a band of fiercely patriotic Irish Americans and their chapter in Ireland's centuries-long fight for independence. Inspiring, lively, and often undeniably comic, this is a story of fighting for what's right in the face of impossible odds.
