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The Irish in Illinois
Author: Mathieu W. Billings
Publisher: SIU Press
Published: 2021-03-04
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 0809338009
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The first statewide history of the Irish in the Prairie State Today over a million people in Illinois claim Irish ancestry and celebrate their love for Ireland. In this concise narrative history, authors Mathieu W. Billings and Sean Farrell bring together both familiar and unheralded stories of the Irish in Illinois, highlighting the critical roles these immigrants and their descendants played in the settlement and the making of the Prairie State. Short biographies and twenty-eight photographs vividly illustrate the significance and diversity of Irish contributions to Illinois. Billings and Farrell remind us of the countless ways Irish men and women have shaped the history and culture of the state. They fought in the French and Indian War, the American Revolution, the Civil War, and two world wars; built the state’s infrastructure and worked in its factories; taught Illinois children and served the poor. Irish political leaders helped to draw up the state’s first constitution, served in city, county, and state offices, and created a machine that dominated twentieth-century politics in Chicago and the state. This lively history adds to our understanding of the history of the Irish in the state over the past two hundred fifty years. Illinoisans and Midwesterners celebrating their connections to Ireland will treasure this rich and important account of the state’s history.
Freedom, Land, and Community:
Author: Greg Koos
Publisher:
Published: 2021-11-15
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780943788074
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Freedom, Land, and Community: A History of McLean County Illinois, 1730-1900 tells the story of the diverse peoples and events of this county. Using sources contemporary with the events described, it relates the struggle to shape the land, build community, and secure freedom as these communities knew and defined it. Native peoples, women and men, African Americans, Irish and German immigrants all sought and contested for their freedom. People whose voices have not been heard in previous works about central Illinois are included here.
Tracing Your Irish Ancestors
Author: John Grenham
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 556
ISBN-13: 9780806317687
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Female Frontier
Author: Glenda Riley
Publisher:
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Examines in rich detail the daily lives of pioneer women". -- Journal of American History. "Anyone interested in women's history and western history will want to read this". -- Pacific Historical Review. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Immigrants in the Valley
Author: Mark Wyman
Publisher: SIU Press
Published: 2016-11-09
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 0809335573
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Thousands of newcomers flocked into the Upper Mississippi country in the decades leading up to the Civil War. Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri, and Minnesota received immigrants from most areas of Europe, as well as Americans from the Upper South, New England, and the Middle Atlantic states. They all carried with them religious beliefs, experiences, and expectations that differed widely, attitudes and opinions which often threw them into conflict with each other. Drawing extensively on family letters sent home to Europe, missionary reports, employment records, and other diverse materials from 1830 to 1860, Wyman shows the interplay between the major groups traveling the roads and waterways of the Upper Mississippi Valley during those crucial decades. The result is a lively, richly illustrated account that will help Americans everywhere better understand their diverse heritage and the environment in which their family trees took root. A new preface to this paperback edition helps to bring the scholarship up to date.
Traveling Through Illinois
Author: LuAnn Cadden
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2013-05-14
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 1625845049
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →If you have been driving through Illinois on I-55 and exclaimed, "There's nothing out there but corn " you aren't alone, but you couldn't be more wrong. Learn why Steven Spielberg visited Waggoner, Illinois, and what fruit Abraham Lincoln used to christen the town named after him, as well as what route was frequented by flesh-eating birds and what antique mall was said to harbor a spaceship. When you travel in the company of LuAnn Cadden and Ted Cable, every mile marker between Chicago and St. Louis hides a story, and even grain silos become adventure destinations.
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Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan
Author: Kerby A. Miller
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2003-03-27
Total Pages: 820
ISBN-13: 9780195348224
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan is a monumental and pathbreaking study of early Irish Protestant and Catholic migration to America. Through exhaustive research and sensitive analyses of the letters, memoirs, and other writings, the authors describe the variety and vitality of early Irish immigrant experiences, ranging from those of frontier farmers and seaport workers to revolutionaries and loyalists. Largely through the migrants own words, it brings to life the networks, work, and experiences of these immigrants who shaped the formative stages of American society and its Irish communities. The authors explore why Irishmen and women left home and how they adapted to colonial and revolutionary America, in the process creating modern Irish and Irish-American identities on the two sides of the Atlantic Ocean. Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan was the winner of the James S. Donnelly, Sr., Prize for Books on History and Social Sciences, American Council on Irish Studies.
Our Cahill, Cassidy, Connor Genealogy of LaSalle and Livingston County, Illinois
Author: Roger Cahill
Publisher:
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 638
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Patrick James Cahill was born in County Clare, Ireland in about 1810. He married Johanna Walsh. They had three known sons, William, James and Michael. They emigrated and lived in LaSalle County, Illinois. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived mainly in Illinois, Ireland and Czechoslovakia.
