The Dooleys of Richmond: An Irish Immigrant Family in the Old and New South

by Mary Lynn Bayliss

Book Overview

The Dooleys of Richmond is the biography of two generations of a dynamic and philanthropic immigrant family in the urban South. While most Irish Catholic immigrants who poured into the region in the nineteenth century were poor and illiterate, John and Sarah Dooley were affluent and well educated. They brought sophistication and capital to Virginia, where John established one of the largest hat manufacturing companies in the United States...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813939984
• ISBN13: 9780813939988
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher