The Irish American Family Album

by Dorothy Hoobler and Thomas Hoobler

Book Overview

Erin go bragh. Ireland forever. The popular Celtic saying is heard in the United States from New York to San Francisco because there are more than 39 million Americans who list their ancestry as Irish. Nearly 800,000 Irish arrived here between 1841 and 1850, and 900,000 followed over the next decade. In other words, more than one out of every five people in Ireland left for the United States in that 20-year period.
The Irish American Family Album...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195124189
• ISBN13: 9780195124187
• Release Date: May 1998
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 10.5" x 8.4"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12

Customer Reviews

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This wonderful little book brings the Irish-American experience alive through the words of the people who lived it. Divided into six chapters, the book contains a selection of extracts from memoirs, showing the individual's "on the scene" view of what was happening. Plus, along the way, the reader is treated to numerous informative sidebars, and many interesting black-and-white pictures. Overall, I found this to be a very interesting book. Indeed, being something of an oral history of such a vast and varied experience, it is bound to only hit the highlights. But, that said, what this book sets out to do it does admirably. I really enjoyed reading the many reminisces of what happened, showing the life of the Irish-American from all of its many sides. This is a great book, one that I am glad that I read, and one that I do not hesitate to recommend. Buy it!