| Description |
272 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-262) and index. |
| Contents |
Knock wood and light the pumpkin: your ancient ancestors are closer than you think -- Prehistoric Ireland: megaliths and mystery -- The origins of the Celts -- Life in ancient Ireland -- The four cycles of storytelling -- Keeping faith at the crossroad: Celtic Christianity -- Druids first Christians later: Druidic beliefs -- Christianity comes to Ireland -- Monastic life in ancient Ireland -- Gone Viking -- No one leaves your table hungry: invasion, starvation, and emigration -- Eight hundred years of invasions -- Oliver Cromwell: the devil in Ireland -- The Scots-Irish migration to America -- A diet of potatoes: conditions ripe for disaster -- An gorta mor: the great hunger -- Away away to Amerikay -- Irish roots and rising Irish: the Irish become American -- Pre-famine Irish Catholic immigrants -- The incoming tide -- Our ancestors "get to work" -- Politics as a ladder: from Tammany Hall to the White House -- Fighting for Amerikay: the Irish in the Civil War -- The parish and the Catholic Church: helping the Irish to rise -- Meanwhile back at the ranch: rising Irish and bold Fenian men -- Diaspora. |
| Subject |
Ireland -- History.
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Irish -- United States -- History.
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Irish Americans -- History.
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| Added Title |
Irish history for Americans |
| ISBN |
9781455620715 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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1455620718 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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