Books

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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Boston's Immigrants, 1790-1880	Oscar Handlin	xvii, 382 pages : 19 cm	OL1170974W
The Irish in baseball	David L. Fleitz	"Professional baseball took root in America in the 1860s during the same years that the sons of the first wave Irish famine refugees began to reach adulthood. This is a survey of the enormous contrib…	OL12255373W
America is also Irish	Robert N. Webb	Traces the causes of Irish immigration to the United States and describes the social, economic, and cultural contributions of this immigrant group to their new country.	OL1581959W
My father's gun	Brian McDonald	"... powerful memoir about three generations of New York City policemen."--Dust jacket.	OL15861956W
All souls	Michael Patrick MacDonald	In this book, the author takes us deep into the secret heart of Southie. With radiant insight, he opens up a contradictory world, where residents are besieged by gangs and crime but refuse to admit a…	OL17727231W
The Story of Chicago May	Nuala O'Faolain	A unique, ruminative biography -- a fascinating excursion into the American underworld at the dawn of the twentieth century, the life of an unrespectable Irish woman, and the hidden inner life of any…	OL1871462W
Singing my him song	Malachy McCourt	Malachy McCourt, bestselling author of A Monk Swimming, shares the extraordinary story of how he went from living the headlong and heedless life of a world-class drunk to becoming a sober, loving fat…	OL1961489W
Walter Harper, Alaska native son	Mary F. Ehrlander	xx, 196 pages ; 24 cm	OL19729671W
Black mass	Dick Lehr	John Connolly and James "Whitey" Bulger grew up together on the tough streets of South Boston. Decades later in the mid-1970s, they met again. By then, Connolly was a major figure in the FBI's Bost…	OL20013270W
Rat Bastards	John "red" Shea	John "Red" Shea, 40, was a top lieutenant in the South Boston Irish mob run, led by James "Whitey" Bulger. An ice–cold enforcer with a red–hot temper, Shea was a legend among his peers in the 1990s S…	OL278351W
A student's guide to Irish American genealogy	Erin McKenna	A guide to genealogical research in the United States and Ireland for Irish Americans. Includes information on the history of Irish immigration.	OL3280634W
I am Irish American	Ellwood Connor	Discusses an Irish American's heritage, including famous Irish Americans and information about Ireland.	OL3358738W
The Irish Americans	William D. Griffin	Presents the powerful story of the forty million Irish Americans, descendants of the seven million who emigrated from Ireland to America over the last three centuries, in a richly textured portrait c…	OL4650330W
The American Irish	William Vincent Shannon	xiii, 458 p. : 25 cm	OL4796560W
Crossing Highbridge	Maureen Waters	"Maureen Waters began writing about the Bronx in the spirit of dinnseachas, Irish place lore, as a means of recuperating from the accidental death of her son, whose story frames her own. Finding her …	OL5591534W
The ride of our lives	Mike Leonard	Mike Leonard is a lucky man. It's not everyone who gets parents like Jack and Marge. At eighty-seven, Jack is a pathological optimist with an inexhaustible gift of gab. Marge, Jack's bride of sixty y…	OL5851579W
Forgetting Ireland	Bridget Connelly	"In 1880, at the height of Ireland's second famine, a ship of paupers was sent from Galway to take up land granted them by a Catholic bishop in Minnesota. There they encountered the worst winter in t…	OL5955021W
Irish in Minnesota	Ann Regan	"Irish Immigrants to Minnesota performed two surprising feats. Contradicting the stereotype of Irishmen as bad farmers, they built some of the country's most successful and enduring Irish farming com…	OL5955631W
Brutal	Kevin Weeks,Phyllis Karas	I grew up in the Old Colony housing project in South Boston and became partners with James "Whitey" Bulger, who I always called Jimmy.Jimmy and I, we were unstoppable. We took what we wanted. And we …	OL7910698W
The Paddy Camps	Brian C. Mitchell	xviii, 247 p. : 23 cm	OL9169314W