Originally published in Scribner's, The Cosmopolitan, McClure's, and Lippincott's, Sarah Orne Jewett's stories about Irish immigrant figures constitute a neglected corner of her oeuvre, despite the fact that Jewett herself entertained the possibility of collecting them into a volume to be called Transplanted Shamrocks. Because the proposed collection never appeared, Jewett's tales of the Irish in America, stories that constitute...