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Author: Ann Regan
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Published: 2009-06-26
Total Pages: 89
ISBN-13: 0873516737
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →As farmers and laborers, policemen and politicians, maids and seamstresses, Irish immigrants' hard work helped to build the state. Author Ann Regan examines their history and tells the diverse stories of the Irish in Minnesota.
Author: Bridget Connelly
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9780873514491
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The immigrants were at last removed from the colony; their name became the town's shorthand for lying, drunken failures.".
Author: Patricia Condon Johnston
Publisher: Johnston Pub
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 92
ISBN-13: 9780942934076
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A Lively Account in text and photos that highlights the accomplishments of such national and international figures as Archbishop John Ireland (whose Catholic colonization program brought thousands of Irish families to farms in southwestern Minnesota), F. Scott Fitzgerald (the golden boy of the jazz age he created), and oil-rich philanthropist Ignatius Aloysius O'Shaughnessy.
Author: Mary Logue
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 2020-05-12
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 145296243X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Women Writing the West WILLA Award Finalist From “the reigning royalty of Minnesota murder mysteries” (The Rake) comes a striking new heroine: a young Irish immigrant caught up in a deadly plot in nineteenth-century Deadwood When I was fifteen and my brother Seamus sixteen, we attended our own wake. Our family was in mourning, forced to send us off to America. The year is 1880, and of all the places Brigid Reardon and her brother might have dreamed of when escaping Ireland’s potato famine by moving to America, Deadwood, South Dakota, was not one of them. But Deadwood, in the grip of gold fever, is where Seamus lands and where Brigid joins him after eluding the unwanted attentions of the son of her rich employer in St. Paul—or so she hopes. But the morning after her arrival, a grisly tragedy occurs; Seamus, suspected of the crime, flees, and Brigid is left to clear his name and to manage his mining claim, which suddenly looks more valuable and complicated than he and his partners supposed. Mary Logue, author of the popular Claire Watkins mysteries, brings her signature brio and nerve to this story of a young Irish woman turned reluctant sleuth as she tries to make her way in a strange and often dangerous new world. From the famine-stricken city of Galway to the bustling New York harbor, to the mansions of Summit Avenue in St. Paul, and finally to the raucous hustle of boomtown Deadwood, Logue’s new thriller conjures the romance and the perils, and the tricky everyday realities, of a young immigrant surviving by her wits and grace in nineteenth-century America.
Author: Bill Lindeke
Publisher: Urban Biography
Published: 2021-05
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781681342009
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A concise history, featuring stories that are familiar, surprising, and sure to change the way you see Minnesota's capitol city.
Author: Nora Murphy
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 2017-04-18
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 1452954208
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →“This is conquered land.” The Dakota woman’s words, spoken at a community meeting in St. Paul, struck Nora Murphy forcefully. Her own Irish great-great grandparents, fleeing the potato famine, had laid claim to 160 acres in a virgin maple grove in Minnesota. That her dispossessed ancestors’ homestead, The Maples, was built upon another, far more brutal dispossession is the hard truth underlying White Birch, Red Hawthorn, a memoir of Murphy’s search for the deeper connections between this contested land and the communities who call it home. In twelve essays, each dedicated to a tree significant to Minnesota, Murphy tells the story of the grove that, long before the Irish arrived, was home to three Native tribes: the Dakota, Ojibwe, and Ho-Chunk. She notes devastating strategies employed by the U.S. government to wrest the land from the tribes, but also revisits iconic American tales that subtly continue to promote this displacement—the Thanksgiving story, the Paul Bunyan myth, and Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House books. Murphy travels to Ireland to search out another narrative long hidden—that of her great-great-grandmother’s transformative journey from North Tipperary to The Maples. In retrieving these stories, White Birch, Red Hawthorn uncovers lingering wounds of the past—and the possibility that, through connection to this suffering, healing can follow. The next step is simple, Murphy tells us: listen.
Author: Megan O'Hara
Publisher: Capstone
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 9780736807951
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Discusses the reasons Irish people left their homeland to come to America, the experiences immigrants had in the new country, and the contributions this cultural group made to American society. Includes sidebars and activities.
Author: Mark Wyman
Publisher: SIU Press
Published: 2016-11-09
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 0809335565
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface to the Paperback Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- 1. The Prairie as a Land of Hope -- 2. From the Irish Island -- 3. Auswanderers -- 4. Needed: Laborers -- 5. Saving ""This Dark Valley""--6. A Land without a Sabbath -- 7. Whiskey and Lager Bier -- 8. The Politicians -- Epilogue -- Sources -- Index -- Back Cover
Author: Jay P. Dolan
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2010-02-15
Total Pages: 355
ISBN-13: 1608190102
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Follows the Irish from their first arrival in the American colonies through the bleak days of the potato famine, the decades of ethnic prejudice and nativist discrimination, the rise of Irish political power, and on to the historic moment when John F. Kennedy was elected to the highest office in the land.
Author: Tom Phelan
Publisher: Gallery Books
Published: 2020-03-03
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 150119710X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →“You don’t have to be Irish to cherish this literary gift—just being human and curious and from a family will suffice.” —Malachy McCourt, New York Times bestselling author of A Monk Swimming In the tradition of Frank McCourt’s Angela’s Ashes and Alice Taylor’s To School Through the Fields, Tom Phelan’s We Were Rich and We Didn’t Know It is a heartfelt and masterfully written memoir of growing up in Ireland in the 1940s. Tom Phelan, who was born and raised in County Laois in the Irish midlands, spent his formative years working with his wise and demanding father as he sought to wrest a livelihood from a farm that was often wet, muddy, and back-breaking. It was a time before rural electrification, the telephone, and indoor plumbing; a time when the main modes of travel were bicycle and animal cart; a time when small farmers struggled to survive and turkey eggs were hatched in the kitchen cupboard; a time when the Church exerted enormous control over Ireland. We Were Rich and We Didn’t Know It recounts Tom’s upbringing in an isolated, rural community from the day he was delivered by the local midwife. With tears and laughter, it speaks to the strength of the human spirit in the face of life’s adversities.
