The origins and evolution of Irish American identity, from colonial times through the twentieth century As millions of Irish immigrants and their descendants cr
Follows the Irish from their first arrival in the American colonies through the bleak days of the potato famine, the decades of ethnic prejudice and nativist di
Explores the history of the Irish in America, offering an overview of Irish history, immigration to the United States, and the transition of the Irish from the
Romantic Young Irelander, republican revolutionary, father of the Irish tricolour and political exile, Thomas Francis Meagher became a citizen of the United Sta