Presenting an illustrated history, this book calls upon several photographs and newspaper clippings that uncover the story of how the Irish in New Jersey maintained their cultural roots. It is suitable for those interested in the cultural heritage of a proud and accomplished people.
Dermot Quinn is a professor of history at Seton Hall University. Educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and New College, Oxford, he is author of Patronage and Piety: English Roman Catholics and Politics, 1850-1900 and Understanding Northern Ireland.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Introduction
CHAPTER 1 Varieties of Irishness
CHAPTER 2 Ireland and New Jersey
in the Seventeenth Century
CHAPTER 3 Ulster, Ireland, and New Jersey
in the Eighteenth Century
CHAPTER 4 The Nineteenth-Century Experience
CHAPTER 5 A Trickle Becomes a Flood
CHAPTER 6 The Twentieth Century:
From History to Heritage
CHAPTER 7 The End of the Journey
Epilogue
NOTES
INDEX