The American Irish - A History (Paperback)

This text explores the period of 1700-2000 when more than seven million Irish men, women and children migrated to the USA and examines the concentrated mass migration of five million which occurred between 1820-1920. The American Irish offers an extended analysis of the conditions in Ireland which led to the mass migration, as well as, the effects in the economic, political and cultural development in the United States in terms of patterns of settlement, labor, race, gender, politics and nationalism. It is the first concise, general history of the subject in a generation.