The Irish In Iowa
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Author | : Timothy Walch |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 163 |
Release | : 2019-03-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1439666296 |
Iowa offered freedom and prosperity to the Irish fleeing famine and poverty. They became the second-largest immigrant group to come to the state, and they acquired influence well beyond their numbers. The first hospitals, schools and asylums in the area were established by Irish nuns. Irish laborers laid the tracks and ran the trains that transported crops to market. Kate Shelley became a national heroine when she saved a passenger train from plunging off a bridge. The Sullivan family became the symbol of sacrifice when they lost their five sons in World War II. Author Timothy Walch details these stories and more on the history and influence of the Irish in the Heartland.
Author | : Homer L. Calkin |
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Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : Irish |
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Release | : 1964 |
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Author | : Jacob Van der Zee |
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Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 1922 |
Genre | : British |
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Author | : Patrick L. Coleman |
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Total Pages | : 31 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Irish |
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Author | : Mary Helen Carey |
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Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 1944 |
Genre | : Irish Americans |
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Author | : Marian Crowley Chamberlain |
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Total Pages | : 35 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Clinton County (Iowa) |
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The history of one Irish family who left County Cork during the famine years, came to America where they started a new life, and planted their roots on the prairie of Iowa.
Author | : Evelyn Sinclair Tierney |
Publisher | : Independently Published |
Total Pages | : 508 |
Release | : 2022-03-16 |
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"My mother was only two weeks old when her family got to Monroe County. I often wonder how they made it, but of course they were Irish." -- Alice Logan In the nearly 40 years since BUT OF COURSE THEY WERE IRISH was first published, it has become known as the "Melrose bible." In the small Irish community of Melrose, Iowa, and wherever former residents have roamed, the book holds a place of honor, quickly referred to whenever a question about Melrose needs answering. This third edition contains all the same content as the original hardcover book first published in 1984.
Author | : Evelyn Sinclair Tierney |
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Total Pages | : 491 |
Release | : 1984 |
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Author | : Joann P. Krieg |
Publisher | : University of Iowa Press |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2000-10 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1587293412 |
Though Walt Whitman created no Irish characters in his early works of fiction, he did include the Irish as part of the democratic portrait of America that he drew in Leaves of Grass. He could hardly have done otherwise. In 1855, when the first edition of Leaves of Grass was published, the Irish made up one of the largest immigrant populations in New York City and, as such, maintained a cultural identity of their own. All of this “Irishness” swirled about Whitman as he trod the streets of his Mannahatta, ultimately becoming part of him and his poetry. As members of the working class, famous authors, or close friends, the Irish left their mark on Whitman the man and poet. In Whitman and the Irish, Joann Krieg convincingly establishes their importance within the larger framework of Whitman studies. Focusing on geography rather than biography, Krieg traces Whitman's encounters with cities where the Irish formed a large portion of the population—New York City, Boston, Camden, and Dublin—or where, as in the case of Washington, D.C., he had exceptionally close Irish friends. She also provides a brief yet important historical summary of Ireland and its relationship with America. Whitman and the Irish does more than examine Whitman's Irish friends and acquaintances: it adds a valuable dimension to our understanding of his personal world and explores a number of vital questions in social and cultural history. Krieg places Whitman in relation to the emerging labor culture of ante-bellum New York, reveals the relationship between Whitman's cultural nationalism and the Irish nationalism of the late nineteenth century, and reflects upon Whitman's involvement with the Union cause and that of Irish American soldiers.