Making the Irish American: History and Heritage of the Irish in the United States Book

1	Introduction : interpreting Irish America	1
2	Modern Ireland : an introductory survey	63
3	Scots Irish or Scotch-Irish	151
4	The Irish in North America, 1776-1845	171
5	The remaking of Irish-America, 1845-1880	213
6	Ulster Presbyterians and the "two traditions" in Ireland and America	255
7	Religious rivalry and the making of Irish-American identity	271
8	Address to the Ulster-Irish Society of New York, 1939	286
9	American-Irish nationalism	289
10	Refractive history : memory and the founders of the emigrant savings bank	302
11	Ubiquitous Bridget : Irish immigrant women in domestic service in America, 1840-1930	332
12	Labor and labor organizations	354
13	Race, violence, and anti-Irish sentiment in the nineteenth century	364
14	Irish-American popular music	381
15	The Irish and vaudeville	406
16	Irish traditional music in the United States	411
17	Before Riverdance : a brief history of Irish step dancing in America	417
18	Irish-American festivals	426
19	Irish Americans in sports : the nineteenth century	443
20	Irish Americans in sports : the twentieth century	457
21	The Irish (1963, 1970)	475
22	Once we were kings (1999)	526
23	Democracy in action (1988)	535
24	Irish America, 1940-2000	548
25	Twentieth-century American Catholicism and Irish Americans	574
26	The fireman on the stairs : communal loyalties in the making of Irish America	609
27	The tradition of Irish-American writers : the twentieth century	649
28	Looking for Jimmy (1999)	663
29	The future of Irish America (2000)	680
App	The Irish in the U.S. census : an explanatory note	687