The Columbia Guide to Irish American History

Timothy J. Meagher

October, 2005
Cloth, 384 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-12070-8
$51.00 / £30.00

Preface

Part I. A History of Irish Americans from the Seventeenth to the Twenty-first Century

Introduction: The Irish as Immigrants and Ethnics

1. Irish Immigration to Colonial America

2. Irish America from the Revolution to the Famine

3. The Famine Years

4. The Turn of the Twentieth Century

5. The Twentieth Century

6. The 1960s to the Present

Part II. Issues and Themes in Irish American History

1. Irish American Gender and Family

2. Irish Americans in Politics

3. Irish American Nationalism

4. Irish Americans and Race

Part III. Important People, Organizations, Events, and Terms

Part IV. Chronology of Irish America

Part V. Bibliography

Related Subjects

• History
• Reference

Series

• Columbia Guides to American History and Cultures

About the Author

Timothy J. Meagher is associate professor of history and curator of the American Catholic History Collections at Catholic University. He is the author of several works, including The New York Irish (with Ronald Bayor) and Inventing Irish America: Generation, Class, and Ethnic Identity in a New England City, 1880 to 1928, winners of the James Donnelly prize for the Best Book in Irish American history.

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