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Genre/Form: | History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Dennis Clark |
ISBN: | 0877220573 9780877220572 0877222274 9780877222279 |
OCLC Number: | 7948535 |
Notes: | Cataloging based on CIP information. |
Description: | pages cm |
Contents: | A tradition grows -- The famine generation -- City shelter -- Working to live -- Church and school -- Clans and causes -- Hibernia Philadelphia -- The tradition persists -- The urban Irishman. |
Responsibility: | Dennis Clark. |
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"...a serious, solid, widely and deeply researched study that reveals a number of significant and interesting insights into Irish immigrant history in America." --Commonwealth "A fine book about the Irish in Philadelphia that is a combination of social history and a study of ten generations of a transplanted minority struggling initially for survival, then for advancement, affluence, recognition and identity against formidable odds." --Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography "A fund of good stories and some interesting conclusions on the extraordinarily adept transition managed by an essentially rural people into a rough and bustling urban environment in the mid-nineteenth century." --Philadelphia Inquirer "A valuable contribution that will prove interesting not only to historians but also to sociologists and students of urban problems." --Oscar Handlin Read more...

