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Old Ireland : from its beginnings to the eighteenth century -- Irish immigration in the colonial era : 1585-1775 -- Irish America in the age of revolution : 1775-1815 -- Irish America in transition : 1815-1845 -- The famine and Irish immigrants in America : 1845-1880 -- The famine Irish American community in an America in crisis : 1845-1880 -- A new generation and new immigrants in turn-of-the-century America : 1880-1928 -- Searching for their place at the end of the nineteenth century : the Irish American community, 1880-1908 -- Finding their place : the Irish American community, 1900-1928 -- Rising power : Irish Americans in New Deal America, 1928-1939 -- The old order at high tide : Irish America in World War II and postwar America, 1940-1960. |
