Irish American History, Life & Values
Basics:
On the Web: Articles
On the Web: Specialized Sites
European Research Center on Migration & Ethnic Relations.
In the Library: Articles
Anbinder, Tyler. "From famine to Five Points: Lord Lansdowne's Irish tenants encounter North America's most notorious slum," American Historical Review 107,2 (4/02):351-87.\
Hanagan, Michael. "Irish transnational movements in the last 140 years," Mobilization 3,1 (200?).
In the Library: Non-Fiction Books
Bielenberg, Andy (ed.) The Irish Diaspora (NY: Longman, 2000).
Brown, Thomas N. Irish-American Nationalism, 1870-1890 (Philadelphia: Lipincotte, 1966).
Casey, Daniel J. & Robert E. Rhodes (eds.) Irish-American Fiction: Essays in Criticism (NY: AMS, 1979).
Coogan, Tim Pat. Wherever Green is Worn: The Story of the Irish Diaspora (NY: Palgrave, 2002).
Cooke, Robert. American Family (?: IUniverse, 2005). Compares post-World War II experiences of an Irish American & an African American family in struggle for fair housing & voting rights.
Dezell, Maureen. Irish America: Coming Into Clover. The Evolution of a People & Culture (NY: Doubleday, 2001).
Diner, Hasia R. Erin's Daughters in America: Irish Immigrant Women in the 19th Century (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1983).
Erie, Steven P. Rainbow's End: Irish America & the Dilemnas of Urban Machine Politics, 1840-1985 (Berkeley: U. California Press, 1989).
Hayden, Tom. Irish Hunger: Personal Reflections on the Legacy of the Famine (Boulder CO: Roberts Rinehart, 1997).
__________. Irish on the Inside: In Search of the Soul of Irish America (NY: Verso, 2001).
Hoobler, Dorothy & Thomas Hoobler. The Irish American Family Album (NY: Oxford, 1995).
Metress, Seamus P. The Irish-American Experience: A Guide to the Literature (Washington: U. Press of America, 1981).
Waters, Maureen. Crossing Highbridge: A Tale of Irish America (Syracuse: Syracuse U., 2001)
Weisz, Howard Ralph. Irish-American & Italian-American Educational Views & Activities, 1870-1900: A Comparison (NY: Arno, 1976).
In the Library: Fiction
Brady, Catherine. The End of the Class War (Corvallis OR: Calyx, 1999).
Carey, Lisa. The Mermaids Singing (NY: Avon, 1998).
Fanning, Charles (ed.) The Exiles of Erin: 19th-C. Irish-American Fiction (Notre Dame: U. Notre Dame, 1987).
__________. The Irish Voice in America: 250 Years of Irish-American Fiction [1990] (2nd ed. Lexington: U. Kentucky, 2000).
Howard, Maureen. Natural History: A Novel (NY: Norton, 1992).
Kearns, Caledonia (ed.) Cabbage & Bones: An Anthology of Irish American Women's Fiction (NY: Henry Holt, 1997).
McDermott, Alice. Charming Billy (NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1998).
Stephens, Michael Gregory. The Brooklyn Book of the Dead: A Novel (Normal IL: Dalkey Archive, 1994).
Uhnak, Dorothy. Law & Order: A Novel (NY: Simon & Schuster, 1973).
Shea, Christine. Moira's Crossing (NY: St. Martin's, 2002).
In the Library: For Young Readers
In the Library: Poetry
In the Library: Drama
In the Library: Photography
CD & Audio:
Film & Video
"Angels with Dirty Faces" [1938], dir. Michael Curtiz, 97m. In video stordes.
"The Brothers McMullin" [1995], dir. Edward Burns, 98m. In video stores.
"Good Will Hunting" [1997], dir. Gus Van Sant, 126m. In video stores.
"In America" [2002], dir. Jim Sheridan, 107m. In video stores.
"The Last Hurrah' [1958], dir. John Ford, 121m. In video stores.
"Long Day's Journey into Night" [1962], dir. Sidney Lumet, 174m. In video stores.
"Long Day's Journey into Night" [1996], dir. David Wellington, 173m.
"One Man's Hero" [1998], dir. Lance Hool, 120m. St. Patrick's Batallion in the US-Mexican War.
"The Molly Maguires" [1970], dir. Martin Ritt, 124m. In video stores.
"Mystic River" [2003], dir. Clint Eastwood, 137m. In video stores.
"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" [1945], dir. Elia Kazan, 128m. In video stores. Immigrant tenement life in 1912.
"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" [1974], dir. Joseph Hardy, 90m.