Irish Immigrants in McLean County, Illinois
Author : Greg Koos
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,40 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Immigrants
ISBN : 9780943788210
Author : Greg Koos
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,40 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Immigrants
ISBN : 9780943788210
Author : Mathieu W. Billings
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 26,81 MB
Release : 2021-03-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0809338009
The first statewide history of the Irish in the Prairie State Today over a million people in Illinois claim Irish ancestry and celebrate their love for Ireland. In this concise narrative history, authors Mathieu W. Billings and Sean Farrell bring together both familiar and unheralded stories of the Irish in Illinois, highlighting the critical roles these immigrants and their descendants played in the settlement and the making of the Prairie State. Short biographies and twenty-eight photographs vividly illustrate the significance and diversity of Irish contributions to Illinois. Billings and Farrell remind us of the countless ways Irish men and women have shaped the history and culture of the state. They fought in the French and Indian War, the American Revolution, the Civil War, and two world wars; built the state’s infrastructure and worked in its factories; taught Illinois children and served the poor. Irish political leaders helped to draw up the state’s first constitution, served in city, county, and state offices, and created a machine that dominated twentieth-century politics in Chicago and the state. This lively history adds to our understanding of the history of the Irish in the state over the past two hundred fifty years. Illinoisans and Midwesterners celebrating their connections to Ireland will treasure this rich and important account of the state’s history.
Author : Greg Koos
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,4 MB
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : McLean County (Ill.)
ISBN : 9780943788074
Freedom, Land, and Community: A History of McLean County Illinois, 1730-1900 tells the story of the diverse peoples and events of this county. Using sources contemporary with the events described, it relates the struggle to shape the land, build community, and secure freedom as these communities knew and defined it. Native peoples, women and men, African Americans, Irish and German immigrants all sought and contested for their freedom. People whose voices have not been heard in previous works about central Illinois are included here.
Author : Kerby A. Miller
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 820 pages
File Size : 49,35 MB
Release : 2003-03-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195348224
Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan is a monumental and pathbreaking study of early Irish Protestant and Catholic migration to America. Through exhaustive research and sensitive analyses of the letters, memoirs, and other writings, the authors describe the variety and vitality of early Irish immigrant experiences, ranging from those of frontier farmers and seaport workers to revolutionaries and loyalists. Largely through the migrants own words, it brings to life the networks, work, and experiences of these immigrants who shaped the formative stages of American society and its Irish communities. The authors explore why Irishmen and women left home and how they adapted to colonial and revolutionary America, in the process creating modern Irish and Irish-American identities on the two sides of the Atlantic Ocean. Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan was the winner of the James S. Donnelly, Sr., Prize for Books on History and Social Sciences, American Council on Irish Studies.
Author : John Grenham
Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Com
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 44,45 MB
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806317687
Author : William Detmers
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 36,90 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Irish Americans
ISBN :
Author : Mark Wyman
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 23,56 MB
Release : 2016-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0809335573
Thousands of newcomers flocked into the Upper Mississippi country in the decades leading up to the Civil War. Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri, and Minnesota received immigrants from most areas of Europe, as well as Americans from the Upper South, New England, and the Middle Atlantic states. They all carried with them religious beliefs, experiences, and expectations that differed widely, attitudes and opinions which often threw them into conflict with each other. Drawing extensively on family letters sent home to Europe, missionary reports, employment records, and other diverse materials from 1830 to 1860, Wyman shows the interplay between the major groups traveling the roads and waterways of the Upper Mississippi Valley during those crucial decades. The result is a lively, richly illustrated account that will help Americans everywhere better understand their diverse heritage and the environment in which their family trees took root. A new preface to this paperback edition helps to bring the scholarship up to date.
Author : E Duis
Publisher : Andesite Press
Page : 918 pages
File Size : 12,77 MB
Release : 2015-08-08
Category :
ISBN : 9781298565464
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Author : E. Duis
Publisher :
Page : 914 pages
File Size : 25,73 MB
Release : 2016-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781362567974
Author : E Duis
Publisher : Scholar's Choice
Page : 886 pages
File Size : 48,16 MB
Release : 2015-02-12
Category :
ISBN : 9781294984863
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.