Publication

2001 - Distributed by University of Missouri Press, Saint Louis, Missouri

Language

English

Word Count

67,500 words, Guess

Page Count

270 pages

Identifiers

and 5 more
  • Goodreads1175181
  • Library of Congress Control Number00069920
  • OCLC Control Number45630589
  • Better World Books9781883982393
  • Open LibraryOL6797145M

Classifications

  • DDC977.8/660049162
  • LCCF474.S29 I64 2001
  • LCCF474.S29I64 2001

Alternate Titles

  • Saint Louis Irish

Description

"A French-founded frontier village that transformed into a booming nineteenth-century industrial mecca dominated by Germans, the city of St. Louis nonetheless resounds from the influence of Irish immigrants. Both the history and maps of the city are dotted with the enduring legacies of familiar Celts - John Mullanphy, John O'Fallon, Cardinal John J. Glennon - but the true marks of the Irish in St. Louis were made by the common immigrants - those who fled their homeland to settle in the "Kerry Patch" on St. Louis's near northside - and their battle to maintain cultural, ethnographic, and religious roots." "The St. Louis Irish is an enticing history of one nationality clinging to its roots in a melting-pot American city. Both visitor and native St. Louisan, Irish or not, will relish this history of one of St. Louis's most enduring communities."--Jacket.

Subjects

Topics

HistoryMinoritiesEthnic identityIrish AmericansEthnic relationsIrish, united statesSaint louis (mo.), history

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