The United States of America: The Irish Clergyman
Author : Thomas Timothy McAvoy
Publisher :
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 32,43 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Religion
ISBN :
Author : Thomas Timothy McAvoy
Publisher :
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 32,43 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Religion
ISBN :
Author : John Francis Maguire
Publisher : New York, Montreal, D. & J. Sadlier
Page : 682 pages
File Size : 41,5 MB
Release : 1868
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Thomas D'Arcy McGee
Publisher :
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 29,21 MB
Release : 1851
Category : Irish
ISBN :
Author : Michael Coffey
Publisher : Hyperion
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 28,24 MB
Release : 1997-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786863440
The companion volume to a PBS television series, a compendium of essays, photographs, and illustrations explores the social, cultural, and political history of Irish Americans through contributions by Pete Hamill, Frank McCourt, Peggy Noonan, and others. TV tie-in."
Author : Michael Glazier
Publisher : Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press
Page : 1030 pages
File Size : 17,62 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN :
Distinguished scholars from American, Ireland, Canada and Britain have contributed major articles about important events, themes, and people of the Irish saga in American, from colonial times to today.
Author : Douglas Brinkley
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 33,34 MB
Release : 2006-01-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0060776846
"Father McGivney's vision remains as relevant as ever in the changed circumstances of today's church and society."—Pope John Paul II Is now the time for an American parish priest to be declared a Catholic saint? In Father Michael McGivney (1852-1890), born and raised in a Connecticut factory town, the modern era's ideal of the priesthood hit its zenith. The son of Irish immigrants, he was a man to whom "family values" represented more than mere rhetoric. And he left a legacy of hope still celebrated around the world. In the late 1800s, discrimination against American Catholics was widespread. Many Catholics struggled to find work and ended up in infernolike mills. An injury or the death of the wage earner would leave a family penniless. The grim threat of chronic homelessness and even starvation could fast become realities. Called to action in 1882 by his sympathy for these suffering people, Father McGivney founded the Knights of Columbus, an organization that has helped to save countless families from the indignity of destitution. From its uncertain beginnings, when Father McGivney was the only person willing to work toward its success, it has grown to an international membership of 1.7 million men. At heart, though, Father McGivney was never anything more than an American parish priest, and nothing less than that, either—beloved by children, trusted by young adults, and regarded as a "positive saint" by the elderly in his New Haven parish. In an incredible work of academic research, Douglas Brinkley (The Boys of Pointe Du Hoc, Tour of Duty) and Julie M. Fenster (Race of the Century, Ether Day) re-create the life of Father McGivney, a fiercely dynamic yet tenderhearted man. Though he was only thirty-eight when he died, Father McGivney has never been forgotten. He remains a true "people's priest," a genuinely holy man—and perhaps the most beloved parish priest in U.S. history. Moving and inspirational, Parish Priest chronicles the process of canonization that may well make Father McGivney the first American-born parish priest to be declared a saint by the Vatican.
Author : Scotch-Irish Society of America
Publisher :
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 39,57 MB
Release : 1890
Category : Scots-Irish
ISBN :
Author : Mark Wyman
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 26,66 MB
Release : 2016-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0809335565
This book shows the interplay between the major groups traveling the roads and waterways of the Upper Mississippi Valley during the crucial decades of 1830 - 1860. It's a lively, extensively-illustrated account which will help Americans everywhere better understand their diverse heritage.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 43,12 MB
Release : 1892
Category : Scotch-Irish Congress
ISBN :
Author : William Corby
Publisher :
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 33,72 MB
Release : 1893
Category : United States
ISBN :
The autobiography of William Corby, who became famous for granting general absolution to the soldiers of the Irish Brigade at the Battle of Gettysburg.