Irish Americans
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Book Overview
Tells the story of those seven million Irish men, women and children who left their native land and sailed to America, hoping for a chance at a better life. Many came searching for the streets they had heard were paved with gold and found that not only were they not paved with gold, the streets were not paved at all, and the Irish were expected to pave them. And so they did. Through moving text and more than 200 extraordinary images, THE IRISH IMMIGRANT...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0883631253
ISBN13:9780883631256
Release Date:June 1998
Publisher:Universe Publishing(NY)
Length:240 Pages
Weight:4.55 lbs.
Dimensions:1.3" x 10.1" x 13.3"
Customer Reviews
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A Must for Your Coffee Table!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
If you are of Irish descent (and are proud of it) and live in America, you should own and proudly dislay a copy of this book. It is a beautiful pictoral presentation of how the Irish immigrated, integrated, and adjusted to life in this country.By a quirk of fate I can be found in the two page picture of the Murphy family reunion of 1988 on pages 188 and 189.W.A. Murphy -- 10/07/00
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