More than 45 million Americans today can claim some degree of Irish ancestry. Kevin Kenny covers the period
of 1700 - 2000 when more than seven million Irish men, women and children migrated to the USA and examines the
concentrated mass migration of five million which occurred between 1820 - 1920. This vast movement of people played
a significant role in the shaping of modern Ireland and America. . Offers an extended analysis of the conditions
in Ireland which led to the mass migration, as well as, the effects in the economic, political and cultural development
in the United states. Those interested in the Irish American population and their history.
Table of Contents
1. The Eighteenth Century.
Ulster.
Emigration.
Arrival and Settlement.
Religion and Politics.
The Scotch-Irish in 1790 and After.
2. Before the Famine.
Economy and Society in Rural Ireland.
Emigration, Arrival and Settlement.
Labor and Race.
Religion.
Nativism and Abolitionism.
3. The Famine Generation.
An Gorta Mor.
Emigration.
Arrival, Settlement and Labor.
Religion, Nativism and Politics.
Being Irish in America.
4. After the Famine.
Economy and Society in Rural Ireland.
Arrival and Settlement.
Labor and Gender.
Nativism and Politics.
Religion.
Nationalism.
5. Irish America, 1900-1940.
The Irish in Ireland and America.
Labor.
Alcohol and Culture.
Nationalism.
Religion.
Municipal Politics.
National Politics.
6. Irish in America Since World War II.
Prosperity.
The Irish-American Community.
Religion.
Municipal Politics.
National Politics.
Nationalism, I.
Nationalism, II.
