United States: Irish Americans
- Auch, Mary Jane.
Ashes of
roses
Sixteen-year-old Margaret Rose Nolan, newly arrived from Ireland, finds work at New York City's Triangle Shirtwaist
Factory shortly before the 1911 fire in which 146 employees died.
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200
- Avi, 1937-
Beyond
the western sea
Driven from their impoverished Irish village, fifteen-year-old Maura and
her younger brother meet their landlord's runaway son in Liverpool while
all three wait for a ship to America; their fates continue to intertwine
on board ship and in the New World.
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1996
- Connor, Leslie.
Miss
Bridie chose a shovel
Miss Bridie emigrates
to America
in 1856 and chooses to bring a shovel, which proves to be a useful tool
throughout her life.
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- Whitney, Kim Ablon.
See
you down the road
Sixteen-year-old Bridget, member of an Irish Traveller
community in the United
States, questions
the traditions of her family's nomadic and criminal way of life and begins
to wonder if she wants to continue living it.
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- Holland, Isabelle.
Paperboy
In 1881 in New York City,
teenaged Kevin O'Donnell, ever conscious of the prejudice against the
Irish poor, struggles to support his sick father and young sister by
working as a messenger for a prominent newspaper but finds his job
threatened when he is falsely accused of stealing from his employer.
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- Sawyer, Kem Knapp.
Irish
Americans
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- Beller, Susan Provost, 1949-
Never
were men so brave : the Irish Brigade during the Civil War
Discusses the conditions in Ireland that led many to come to America in
the mid-1800s, the formation of the Union Army's Irish Brigade, and the
experiences of these soldiers during the Civil War.
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- Denenberg, Barry.
So
far from home : the diary of Mary Driscoll, an Irish mill girl
In the diary account of her journey from Ireland in 1847 and of her work
in a mill in Lowell, Massachusetts, fourteen-year-old Mary reveals a great
longing for her family.
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- McKenna, Erin.
A
student's guide to Irish American genealogy
A guide to genealogical research in the United States and Ireland for
Irish Americans. Includes information on the history of Irish immigration.
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- Cummings, Betty Sue.
Now, Ameriky
A young Irish woman, whose family is driven from their land during the
potato famine in the 1840's, is sent to America to earn enough money
to enable the rest of her family to join her.
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