The Shamrock And The Lily : The New York Irish And The Creation Of A Transatlantic Identity, 1845-1921

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ix FOREWORD xi ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xiii LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS xvii Introduction 1(12) Chapter One Shaping the Presence: The Transatlantic World of Post-Famine Irish New York 13(22) Chapter Two The Silent Majority? Irish Women and New York Irish Identity 35(38) Chapter Three The Quiet Men (and Women) 73(34) Chapter Four Language as a Message from History 107(24) Chapter Five Many-Roomed Mansion: Ireland's Catholicism and Post-Famine New York 131(22) Chapter Six Powerful Partitions: Transatlantic Tensions in New York's Irish Political Culture 153(28) Conclusion 181(8) NOTES 189(44) BIBLIOGRAPHY 233(22) INDEX 255