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Paperback Irish Pittsburgh Book

ISBN: 0738597910

ISBN13: 9780738597911

Irish Pittsburgh

(Part of the Images of America: Pennsylvania Series)

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Many modern Irish Pittsburghers can trace their roots to immigrants fleeing an Ireland devastated by the Great Potato Famine of the mid-1800s. They migrated to Pittsburgh, a booming industrial town, and worked in the iron and steel mills, the mines, and the railroads. Irish women became domestic servants in such large numbers that "Bridget the Maid" was a stock character on stage and later in films. The immigrants settled in neighborhoods such as...

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