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The Irish Way: Becoming American in the Multiethnic City by James R Barrett Publisher Comments A lively, street-level history of turn-of-the-century urban life explores the Americanizing influence of the Irish on successive waves of migrants to the American city. In the newest volume in the award-winning Penguin History of American Life series... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $21.00 Used - Hardcover 
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The Irish Americans : A History by Jay P. Dolan Publisher Comments A history of the Irish in America from the eighteenth century to the present, by one of the nation's most eminent scholars of the immigrant experience. Jay Dolan of the University of Notre Dame is one of America's most acclaimed scholars of immigration... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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Irish Americans: History (08 Edition) by Jay P. Dolan Publisher Comments Dolan has written a superb history of the Irish in this country...The book explains why so many Americans who have an option to choose their own ethnic identity decide that they want to be Irish.--Andrew M. Greeley Acclaimed scholar Jay Dolan's panoramic... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Booking Passage: We Irish & Americans by Thomas Lynch Publisher Comments In 35 years and dozens of return trips to Ireland, Lynch has found a template for the larger world inside the small one, the planet in the local parish. Part memoir, part cultural study, this is a brilliant, often comedic guidebook for those Lynch calls "... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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All Souls: A Family Story from Southie by Michael P Macdonald Publisher Comments Michael Patrick MacDonald grew up in "the best place in the world" — the Old Colony projects of South Boston — where 85 percent of the residents collect welfare in an area with the highest concentration of impoverished whites in the U.S. In All... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Journey of Hope: The Story of Irish Immigration to America by Kerby A Miller Publisher Comments One of the greatest success stories ever told unfolds in the pages of this compelling, three-dimensional book. Through intimate letters, journals, and diaries of actual immigrants, Journey of Hope chronicles the Irish in America and their triumphant rise... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Looking for Jimmy: A Search for Irish America by Peter Quinn Publisher Comments In this stunning work chronicling the author's exploration of his own past-and the lives of many hundreds of thousands of nameless immigrants who struggled alongside his own ancestors-Peter Quinn paints a brilliant new portrait of the Irish-American men... (read more) Your price: $12.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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United Irishmen, United States: Immigrant Radicals in the Early Republic by David A Wilson Publisher Comments After Jefferson's victory, the United Irishmen set out to destroy the Federalists and democratize the Republicans. Some of them believed that their work was preparing the way for the millennium in America. Convinced that the example of America could... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Rainbow's End by Steven P Erie Publisher Comments Unprecedented in its scope, Rainbow's End provides a bold new analysis of the emergence, growth, and decline of six classic Irish-American political machines in New York, Jersey City, Chicago, San Francisco, Pittsburgh and Albany. Combining the... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Ireland & Irish Emigration to the New World from 1850 to the Famine by William Forbe Adams Synopsis Mass immigration to the United States was nowhere more apparent than in the immigration of the Irish between 1815 and the failure of the potato crop in 1845/1846, during which time a million Irish men and women emigrated here. This book provides a... (read more) List Price $52.50 Your price: $16.00 Used - Hardcover
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Irish America: Coming Into Clover--The Evolution of a People and a Culture by Maureen Dezell Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-251) and index.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Remembering Ahanagran: A History of Stories by Richard White Publisher Comments Sara Walsh was born in 1919 in the west of Ireland, in a land of storytellers. In prose that is neither history nor memoir but something larger and brighter than both, ."Remembering Ahanagran captures her memories of her early years in Ireland, her... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Boston Irish: A Political History by Thomas H Oconnor Publisher Comments According to Thomas O'Connor, Irish political dominance in Boston grew out of generations of bitter and unyielding conflict between Yankees and Irish Catholic immigrants. Unlike the Irish in other American cities, the settlers in Boston encountered a... (read more) List Price $21.99 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Irish on the Inside: In Search of the Soul of Irish America by Tom Hayden Publisher Comments Tom Hayden first realized he was 'Irish on the inside' when he heard civil rights marchers in Northern Ireland singing 'We Shall Overcome' in 1969. Though his great-grandparents had been forced to emigrate to the US in the 1850s, Hayden's parents erased... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America by Kerby A Miller Publisher Comments Rich in human detail, penetrating in analysis, this book is social history on an epic scale. The first "transatlantic" history of the Irish, Emigrants and Exiles offers the fullest account yet of the diverse waves of Irish emigration to North America... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Booking Passage: We Irish and Americans (05 Edition) by Thomas Lynch Publisher Comments Part memoir, part cultural study, Booking Passageis a brilliant, often comedic guidebook for those 'fellow travelers, fellow pilgrims' making their way through the complexities of their own lives and times.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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A Song for Mary: An Irish-American Memory by Dennis Smith Publisher Comments Growing up in the rough and tumble of New York City in the 1940s and 50s, Dennis Smith was dirt-poor, Irish Catholic and missing a father. Told in a first person narrative, this is a powerful odyssey of a young man coming of age in a confusing world.... (read more) List Price $26.25 Your price: $2.48 Used - Trade Paper
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Irish Heroes & Heroines of America: 150 True Stories of Irish American Heroism by John Bartimole Publisher Comments For centuries, Irish Americans have been making an invaluable contribution to American culture. Now, here are the fascinating stories of 150 men and women who have indelibly changed the face of the country. From presidents (John F. Kennedy) to movie... (read more) List Price $14.50 Your price: $3.98 Used - Trade Paper
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Midlife Irish: Discovering My Family and Myself by Frank Gannon Publisher Comments If Bill Bryson set off for Ireland to discover his roots, then you'd have MIDLIFE IRISH--an illuminating, entertaining, and heartwarming look at one man's search for where--and who--he came from. Irish-American. What does this vague term really mean... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Hair of the Dog by Richard Stivers Synopsis Persecuted in their homeland by the English, the Irish were dogged in their adopted country, by a reputation for drunkenness and alcoholism that was fabricated ... by the English. When I first opened this remarkable book and discovered its patently... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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