Research Catalog

Title

The New York Irish / edited by Ronald H. Bayor and Timothy J. Meagher.

Publication

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.

Supplementary Content

• Contributor biographical information
• Publisher description

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Details

Additional Authors

• Bayor, Ronald H., 1944-
• Meagher, Timothy J.
• New York Genealogical and Biographical Society Collection.

Description

xxii, 743 pages : illustrations, maps; 27 cm

Summary

When Ellis Island opened in 1892, nearly four million Irish men and women had already made the journey to America. By the 1990s, Ireland had sent another million or more. New York has been both port of entry and home to the Irish for three centuries. During that time, America's premier city has undergone massive changes, and the Irish--one of the country's oldest ethnic groups--have played a vital part in its history. The New York Irish tackles subjects like the medicalization of anti-immigrant prejudice; entrepreneurship in business; the impact of music and language on ethnic social life; the effect of nationalist movements on local politics; the dynamics of Irish relations with African-Americans, Chinese, and Dominicans; the battle for freedom of religious expression; and the problem of illegal immigration. It offers a fresh perspective on an immigrant people's encounter with the famed metropolis. -- Publisher description.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of New York Genealogical and Biographical Society. (copy in NYGB)

Subjects

• Irish Americans
• Ethnic relations
• History
• New York (N.Y.) > History
• New York (State) > New York
• New York (N.Y.) > Ethnic relations
• Irish Americans > New York (State) > New York > History

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The Irish and the emerging city : settlement to 1844 / Leo Hershkowitz -- "Upon a bunch of straw " : the Irish in colonial New York City / Joyce D. Goodfriend -- Religion, ethnicity, and history : clues to the cultural construction of law / Walter J. Walsh -- The development of an Irish American community in New York City before the great migration / Paul A. Gilje -- "The most Irish City in the union" : the era of the great migration, 1844-1877 / Hasia R. Diner -- "Desirable companions and lovers" : Irish and African Americans in the Sixth Ward, 1830-1870 / Graham Hodges -- Quimbo Appo's fear of Fenians : Chinese-Irish-Anglo relations in New York City / John Kuo Wei Tchen -- Illness and medical care among Irish immigrants in antebellum New York / Alan M. Kraut -- Shrewd Irishmen : Irish entrepreneurs and artisans in New York's clothing industry, 1830-1880 / William E. Devlin -- Union green : the Irish community and the Civil War / Edward K. Spann -- Forging forward and looking back / Lawrence J. McCaffrey -- Going to the ladies' fair : Irish Catholics in New York City, 1870-1900 / Colleen McDannell -- The Irish language in New York, 1850-1900 / Kenneth E. Nilsen -- Irish county societies in New York, 1880-1914 / John T. Ridge -- The Irish American worker in transition, 1877-1914 : New York City as a test case / John R. McKivigan and Thomas J. Robertson -- "In time of peace, prepare for war" : key themes in the social thought of New York's Irish nationalists, 1890-1916 / David Brundage -- When New York was Irish, and after / Chris McNickle -- Striking for Ireland on the New York docks / Joe Doyle -- Of "mornin' glories" and "fine old oaks" : John Purroy Mitchel, Al Smith, and reform as an expression of Irish American aspiration / John F. McClymer --"From the East Side to the seaside" : Irish Americans on the move in New York City / Marion R. Casey -- An end and a beginning / David M. Reimers -- The neighborhood changed : the Irish of Washington Heights and Inwood since 1945 / Robert W. Snyder -- Emigrants, eirepreneurs, and opportunists : a social profile of recent Irish immigration in New York City / Mary P. Corcoran -- Irish traditional and popular music in New York City : identity and social change, 1930-1975 / Rebecca S. Miller -- The heart's speech no longer stifled : New York Irish writing since the 1960s / Charles Fanning.

Call Number

F128.9.I6

ISBN

• 0801851998
• 9780801851995
• 0801857643
• 9780801857645

LCCN

95020319

OCLC

32625550

Title

The New York Irish / edited by Ronald H. Bayor and Timothy J. Meagher.

Imprint

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Connect to:

Contributor biographical information

Publisher description

Added Author

Bayor, Ronald H., 1944-

Meagher, Timothy J.

New York Genealogical and Biographical Society Collection.

Other Form:

Online version: New York Irish. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996 (OCoLC)605046329

Online version: New York Irish. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996 (OCoLC)608124001

Research Call Number

*R-USLHG F128.9.I6 N49 1996

IEH 96-7123

*R-RMRR F128.9.I6 N49 1996

NYGB N.Y.C G158.4