The origins and evolution of Irish American identity, from colonial times through the twentieth century As millions of Irish immigrants and their descendants cr

'...from time to time a study comes along that truly can be called ‘path breaking,’ ‘seminal,’ ‘essential,’ a ‘must read.’ How the Irish Became

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 di

In the newest volume in the award-winning Penguin History of American Life series, James R. Barrett chronicles how a new urban American identity was forged in t

A three-dimensional book featuring images and documents of Irish immigrants.