Meaghan Dwyer
Professor Kenny
List for comps: American Irish History
December 2, 2003
I. General works/historiography
Akenson, Donald. The Irish Diaspora: A Primer. Ontario and Belfast: P.D. Meany Co., 1996.
Akenson, Donald, “An Agnostic View of the Historiography of the Irish Americans,” Labour/Le Travail,
14 (Fall 1984): 123-59.
Bielenberg, Andy, ed. The Irish Diaspora. New York: Longman, 2000.
Fitzpatrick David. Irish Emigration, 1801-1921. Studies in Irish Economic and Social History, No.1.
Dundalk, Ireland: The Economic and Social History Society of Ireland, 1984.
Gilley, Sheridan, “The Roman Catholic Church and the Nineteenth-Century Irish Diaspora,” Journal of
Ecclesiastical History, 35 (April 1984): 188-207.
Greeley, Andrew M., That Most Distressful Nation. Chicago: Quadrangle Books, Inc., 1973.
Hout, Michael and Joshua R. Goldstein. “How 4.5 million Irish immigrants became 40 Million Irish
Americans: Demographic and Subjective Aspects of the Ethnic Composition,” American Sociological
Review, 59 (February 1994), 64-82.
Jacobson, Matthew Frye. Special Sorrows: The Diasporic Imagination of Irish, Polish, and Jewish
Immigrants in the United States. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995.
Kenny, Kevin. The American Irish: A History. New York: Longman, 2000.
Kenny, Kevin. “The American Irish in Global Perspective” Journal of American History 90.1 (June
2003): 134-162.
Kenny, Kevin, ed. New Directions in Irish-American History. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press,
2003.
McCaffrey, Lawrence J. Textures of Irish America. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1992.
McCaffrey, Lawrence J. The Irish Catholic Diaspora in America. Washington, DC: Catholic University
of America Press, 1997.
Miller, Kerby, “Class, Culture, and Immigrant Group Identity in the United States: The Case of
Irish-American Ethnicity,” in Virginia Yans-McLaughlin, ed., Immigration Reconsidered: History,
Sociology, and Politics. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.
O’Hanlon, Ray. The New Irish Americans. Niwot, CO: Roberts Rinehart Publishers, 1998.
O’Grady, Joseph P. How the Irish Became Americans. New York: Twayne Publishers, Inc., 1973.
Potter, George. To the Golden Door: The Story of the Irish in Ireland and America. Boston: Little, Brown
and Company, 1960.
Shannon, William V. The American Irish: A Political and Social Portrait. New York: MacMillian
Publishing Company, Inc., 1966.
Wittke, Carl. The Irish in America. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1956.
II. Migration and settlement
Donnelly, James S., Jr. The Irish Potato Famine. Stroud, Gloucestershire: Sutton Publishing, 2001.
Fitzpatrick, David, “Emigration, 1801-70,” in W.E. Vaughan, ed., A New History of Ireland, Vol. V,
Ireland Under the Union, I, 1801-70 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989).
Fitzpatrick, David, “Emigration, 1871-1921,” in W. E. Vaughan, ed., A New History of Ireland, Vol. VI,
Ireland under the Union, II, 1870-1921 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996).
Fitzpatrick, David, “‘A Peculiar Tramping People’: The Irish in Britain, 1801-70,” in W.E. Vaughan, ed.,
A New History of Ireland, Vol. V, Ireland Under the Union, I, 1801-70 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989).
Fitzpatrick, David, “A Peculiar Tramping People: The Irish in Britain, 1871-1921,” in W. E. Vaughan,
ed., A New History of Ireland, Vol. VI, Ireland under the Union, II, 1870-1921 (Oxford: Clarendon Press,
1996).
Gallman, J. Matthew, Receiving Erin’s Children: Philadelphia, Liverpool, and the Irish Famine
Migration, 1845-1855. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2000.
Gray, Peter. The Irish Famine. London: Thames and Hudson, 1995.
Griffin, Patrick. The People With No Name: Ireland’s Ulster Scots, America’s Scots-Irish, and the
Creation of a British Atlantic World, 1689-1764. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001.
Guinnane, Timothy. The Vanishing Irish: Households, Migration, and the Rural Economy in Ireland,
1850-1914. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997.
Jones, Maldwyn A. “The Scotch-Irish in British America,” in Bernard Bailyn and Philip D. Morgan, eds.,
Strangers Within the Realm: Cultural Margins of the First British Empire. Chapel Hill, NC: University of
North Carolina Press, 1991.
Leyburn, James. The Scotch-Irish: A Social History. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press,
1962.
MacDonagh, Oliver, “The Irish Famine Emigration to the United States,” Perspectives in American
History, X (1976): 357-446.
Miller, Kerby A. Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America. New York:
Oxford University Press, 1985.
O’Brien, Matthew J. “Transatlantic Connections and the Sharp Edge of the Great Depression” in Kenny,
Kevin, ed. New Directions in Irish-American History. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2003.
Scally, Robert. The End of Hidden Ireland: Rebellion, Famine and Emigration. New York: Oxford
University Press, 1995.
III. Labor, race, and gender
Bernstein, Iver. The New York City Draft Riots: Their Significance for American Society and Politics in
the Age of the Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.
Deutsch, Sarah, Women and the City: Gender, Space and Power in Boston, 1870-1940. New York:
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Oxford University Press, 2000.
Diner, Hasia, Erin’s Daughters in America: Irish Immigrant Women in the Nineteenth Century.
Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983.
Emmons, David, The Butte Irish: Class and Ethnicity in an American Mining Town, 1875-1925. Urbana,
IL: University of Illinois Press, 1989.
Emmons, David. “Faction Fights: The Irish Worlds of Butte, Montana, 1875-1917,” in Patrick
O’Sullivan, ed., The Irish World Wide. History, Heritage, Identity. Vol. II. The Irish in the New
Communities. Leicester, England, 1992.
Harris, Ruth-Ann, “‘Come You All Courageously’: Irish Women in America Write Home” Eire-Ireland
36.1-2 (Summer 2001): 166-184. (Also in New Directions)
Higham, John. Strangers in the Land: Patterns of American Nativism, 1860-1925 (New Brunswick, 1988
[2nd ed.]).
Hotten-Somers, “Relinquishing and Reclining Independence: Irish Domestic Servants, American MiddleClass Mistresses, and Assimilation, 1850-1920” Eire-Ireland 36.1-2 (2001): 185-201. (also in New
Directions)
Hoy, Suellen. “The Journey Out: The Recruitment and Emigration of Irish Religious Women to the
United States, 1812-1914,” Journal of Women’s History, 6 and 7 (Winter/Spring 1995), 64-98.
Ignatiev, Noel. How the Irish Became White. New York: Routledge, 1995.
Jacobson, Matthew Frye. Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998.
Kelleher, Patricia. “Young Irish Workers: Class Implications of Men’s and Women’s Experiences in
Gilded Age Chicago” Eire-Ireland 36.1-2 (Summer 2001): 141-165.
Kenny, Kevin, Making Sense of the Molly Maguires. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
Mitchell, Brian C. The Paddy Camps: The Irish of Lowell 1821–61. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois
Press, 1988.
Nolan, Janet, Ourselves Alone: Women's Emigration from Ireland, 1885-1920. Lexington, KY: University
Press of Kentucky, 1989.
Osofksy, Gilbert, “Abolitionists, Irish Immigrants and the Dilemmas of Romantic Nationalism,”
American Historical Review, 80 (October 1975): 889-97.
Riach, Douglas, “Daniel O’Connell and American Anti-Slavery,” Irish Historical Studies, XX (March
1976): 3-25.
Roediger, David, The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class. New
York: Verso, 1991.
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Rosenzweig, Roy. Eight Hours For What We Will: Workers and Leisure in an Industrial City, 1870-1920.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983.
Way, Peter. Common Labour: Workers and the Digging of the North American Canals, 1780-1860.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
IV. Politics and nationalism
Brown, Thomas N., Irish American Nationalism, 1870-1890. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1966.
Erie, Steven P. Rainbow’s End: Irish Americans and the Dilemmas of Urban Machine Politics, 18401985. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1988.
Foner, Eric. “Class, Ethnicity, and Radicalism in the Gilded Age: The Land League and Irish America,”
in Eric Foner, Politics and Ideology in the Age of the Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press,
1980.
O’Connor, Thomas. The Boston Irish: A Political History. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1995.
Riordan, William, ed. Plunkitt of Tammany Hall: A Series of Very Plain Talks on Very Practical Politics.
New York, Boston: Bedford Books, 1995.
Walsh, Victor. “A Fanatic Heart: The Cause of Irish-American Nationalism in Pittsburgh During the
Gilded Age,” Journal of Social History, 15 (1981), 187-204.
Wilson, Andrew J. Irish America and the Ulster Conflict, 1968-1995. Washington, DC: The Catholic
University of America Press, 1995.
Wilson, David A.. United Irishmen, United States: Immigrant Radicals in the Early Republic (Ithaca,
1998).
V. Urban life and popular culture
Let’s discuss the Tenement Museum under this heading too (briefly)
Archdeacon, Thomas J. “The Irish Famine in American School Curricula, in Kenny, Kevin, ed. New
Directions in Irish-American History. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2003.
Bayor Ronald H. and Timothy J. Meagher, ed. The New York Irish. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University
Press, 1996.
Corcoran, Mary P. “The Process of Migration and the Reinvention of Self: The Experiences of Returning
Irish Emigrants,” in Kenny, Kevin, ed. New Directions in Irish-American History. Madison: University of
Wisconsin Press, 2003.
Curran, Joseph M. Hibernian Green on the Silver Screen: The Irish and American Movies New York:
Greenwood Press, 1989.
Curtis, L. Perry Jr. Apes and Angels: The Irishman in Victorian Literature (revised edition). Washington:
Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997.
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Daly, Mary E. “Nationalism, Sentiment, and Economics: Relations between Ireland and Irish America in
the Postwar Years,” in Kenny, Kevin, ed. New Directions in Irish-American History. Madison: University
of Wisconsin Press, 2003.
Ernst, Robert. Immigrant Life in New York City, 1825-1863. New York: Octagon Books, 1979.
Gamm, Gerald. Urban Exodus: Why the Jews Left Boston and the Catholics Stayed. Cambridge, MA:
Harvard University Press, 1999.
Glazer, Nathan and Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Beyond the Melting Pot: The Negroes, Puerto Ricans,
Jews, Italians, and Irish of New York City (Cambridge, MA: MIT University Press) 1963.
Gleeson, David T. The Irish in the South, 1815-1877. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press,
2001.
Gordon, Michael A. The Orange Riots: Irish Political Violence in New York City, 1870 and 1871. Ithaca:
Cornell University Press, 1993.
Handlin, Oscar. Boston's Immigrants: A Study in Acculturation, 1790-1880, 2nd ed. Cambridge, MA:
Harvard University Press, 1959.
Meagher, Timothy J. Inventing Irish America: Generation, Class, and Ethnic Identity in a New England
City, 1880-1928. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2001.
Miller, Rebecca S.. “Irish Traditional and Popular Music in New York City: Identity and Social Change,
1930–1975.” The New York Irish. Ed. Ronald H. Bayor and Timothy J. Meagher. Baltimore: Johns
Hopkins University Press, 1996. 481-508.
Moloney, Michael. “Irish Music in America: Continuity and Change,” Diss. University of Pennsylvania,
1992.
Moynihan, Kenneth D. “History as a Weapon for Social Advancement: Group History as Told by Irish,
and Black Americans, 1892-1950,” Ph.D. dissertation, Clark University, 1973.
O’Brien, Harvey. “Culture, Commodity, and Cead Mile Failte: U.S. and Irish Tourist Films as a Vision
of Ireland,” in Kenny, Kevin, ed. New Directions in Irish-American History. Madison: University of
Wisconsin Press, 2003.
Niehaus, Earl F. “Paddy on the Local Stage and in Humor: The Image of the Irish in New Orleans, 18301862” Louisiana History 5 (Spring 1964): 117-134.
Rowland, Thomas J. “Irish-American Catholics and the Quest for Respectability in the Coming of the
Great War, 1900-1917,” Journal of American Ethnic History 15.2 (1996): 3-31.
Williams, William H.A. ‘Twas Only an Irishman’s Dream: The Image of Ireland and the Irish in
American Popular Song Lyrics, 1800-1920. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1996.
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