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Author : Mathieu W. Billings,Sean Farrell
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780809337996
"The authors look at the state's earliest Irish residents and communities and describe the critical roles played by Irish immigrants in the settlement and founding of the Prairie State"--
Author : John Gerard McLaughlin
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0738520381
Uses vintage photographs to present a visual history of Chicago's Irish heritage, from the great waves of migration to the present day.
Author : James B. Swan
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009-03-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780809386444
Extensively documented and richly detailed, Chicago’s Irish Legion tells the compelling story of Chicago’s 90th Illinois Volunteer Infantry, the only Irish regiment in Major General William Tecumseh Sherman’s XV Army Corps. Swan’s sweeping history of this singular regiment and its pivotal role in the Western Theater of the Civil War draws heavily from primary documents and first-person observations, giving readers an intimate glimpse into the trials and triumphs of ethnic soldiers during one of the most destructive wars in American history. At the onset of the bitter conflict between the North and the South, Irish immigrants faced a wall of distrust and discrimination in the United States. Many Americans were deeply suspicious of Irish religion and politics, while others openly doubted the dedication of the Irish to the Union cause. Responding to these criticisms with a firm show of patriotism, the Catholic clergy and Irish politicians in northern Illinois—along with the Chicago press and community—joined forces to recruit the Irish Legion. Composed mainly of foreign-born recruits, the Legion rapidly dispelled any rumors of disloyalty with its heroic endeavors for the Union. The volunteers proved to be instrumental in various battles and sieges, as well as the marches to the sea and through the Carolinas, suffering severe casualties and providing indispensable support for the Union. Swan meticulously traces the remarkable journey of these unique soldiers from their regiment’s inception and first military engagement in 1862 to their disbandment and participation in the Grand Review of General Sherman’s army in 1865. Enhancing the volume are firsthand accounts from the soldiers who endured the misery of frigid winters and brutal environments, struggling against the ravages of disease and hunger as they marched more than twenty-six hundred miles over the course of the war. Also revealed are personal insights into some of the war’s most harrowing events, including the battle at Chattanooga and Sherman’s famous campaign for Atlanta. In addition, Swan exposes the racial issues that affected the soldiers of the 90th Illinois, including their reactions to the Emancipation Proclamation and the formations of the first African American fighting units. Swan rounds out the volume with stories of survivors’ lives after the war, adding an even deeper personal dimension to this absorbing chronicle.
Author : James R. Barrett
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780143122807
In the newest volume in the award-winning Penguin History of American Life series, James R. Barrett chronicles how a new urban American identity was forged in the streets, saloons, churches, and workplaces of the American city. This process of "Americanization from the bottom up" was deeply shaped, Barrett argues, by the Irish. From Lower Manhattan to the South Side of Chicago to Boston's North End, newer waves of immigrants and African Americans found it nearly impossible to avoid the Irish. While historians have emphasized the role of settlement houses and other mainstream institutions in Americanizing immigrants, Barrett makes the original case that the culture absorbed by newcomers upon reaching American shores had a distinctly Hibernian cast. By 1900, there were more people of Irish descent in New York City than in Dublin; more in the United States than in all of Ireland. But in the late nineteenth century, the sources of immigration began to shift, to southern and eastern Europe and beyond. Whether these newcomers wanted to save their souls, get a drink, find a job, or just take a stroll in the neighborhood, they had to deal with Irish Americans. Barrett reveals how the Irish vacillated between a progressive and idealistic impulse toward their fellow immigrants and a parochial defensiveness stemming from the hostility earlier generations had faced upon their own arrival in America. They imparted racist attitudes toward African Americans; they established ethnic "deadlines" across city neighborhoods; they drove other immigrants from docks, factories, and labor unions. Yet the social teachings of the Catholic Church, a sense of solidarity with the oppressed, and dark memories of poverty and violence in both Ireland and America ushered in a wave of progressive political activism that eventually embraced other immigrants. Drawing on contemporary sociological studies and diaries, newspaper accounts, and Irish American literature, The Irish Way illustrates how the interactions between the Irish and later immigrants on the streets, on the vaudeville stage, in Catholic churches, and in workplaces helped forge a multi-ethnic American identity that has a profound legacy in the USA today.
Author : Greg Koos
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Immigrants
ISBN : 0943788218
Author : John Grenham
Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Com
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 080631768X
Author : Lawrence John McCaffrey,Ellen Skerrett,Michael F. Funchion,Charles Fanning
Publisher : Urbana : University of Illinois Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X001275538
Examines the history, religion, politics, and literature of one of the city's most influential ethnic groups.
Author : Damian Shiels
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752491974
Just under 200,000 Irishmen took part in the American Civil War, making it one of the most significant conflicts in Irish history. Hundreds of thousands more were affected away from the battlefield, both in the US and in Ireland itself. The Irish contribution, however, is often only viewed through the lens of famous units such as the Irish Brigade, but the real story is much more complex and fascinating. From the Tipperary man who was the first man to die in the war, to the Corkman who was the last General mortally wounded in action; from the flag bearer who saved his regimental colours at the cost of his arms, to the Roscommon man who led the hunt for Abraham Lincoln's assassin, what emerges in this book is a catalogue of gallantry, sacrifice and bravery.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 930 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B3074576
Author : Michael F. Funchion
Publisher : Beaufort Books
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UVA:X000376860
Author : Timothy J. Meagher
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300126273
The origins and evolution of Irish American identity, from colonial times through the twentieth century As millions of Irish immigrants and their descendants created community in the United States over the centuries, they neither remained Irish nor simply became American. Instead, they created a culture and defined an identity that was unique to their circumstances, a new people that they would continually reinvent: Irish Americans. Historian Timothy J. Meagher traces the Irish American experience from the first Irishman to step ashore at Roanoke in 1585 to John F. Kennedy's election as president in 1960. As he chronicles how Irish American culture evolved, Meagher looks at how various groups adapted and thrived--Protestants and Catholics, immigrants and American born, those located in different geographic corners of the country. He describes how Irish Americans made a living, where they worshiped, and when they married, and how Irish American politicians found particular success, from ward bosses on the streets of New York, Boston, and Chicago to the presidency. In this sweeping history, Meagher reveals how the Irish American identity was forged, how it has transformed, and how it has held lasting influence on American culture.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1919
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045302499
Author : Illinois State Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Catalogs, Dictionary
ISBN : UOM:39015050792038
Author : James Thomas Farrell
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0252019814
Presents twenty-five short fiction stories by American author James Farrell, drawn from his first ten collection, all set in Chicago.
Author : Patrick R. Redmond
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-07
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781476605845
Jerrold Casway coined the phrase "The Emerald Age of Baseball" to describe the 1890s, when so many Irish names dominated teams' rosters. But one can easily agree--and expand--that the period from the mid-1830s well into the first decade of the 20th century and assign the term to American sports in general. This book covers the Irish sportsman from the arrival of James "Deaf" Burke in 1836 through to Jack B. Kelly's rejection by Henley regatta and his subsequent gold medal at the 1920 Olympics. It avoids recounting the various victories and defeats of the Irish sportsman, seeking instead to deal with the complex interaction that he had with alcohol, gambling and Sunday leisure: pleasures that were banned in most of America at some time or other between 1836 and 1920. This book also covers the Irish sportsman's close relations with politicians, his role in labor relations, his violent lifestyle--and by contrast--his participation in bringing respectability to sport. It also deals with native Irish sports in America, the part played by the Irish in "Team USA's" initial international sporting ventures, and in the making and breaking of amateurism within sport.