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Irish lives in America
About this book
The Irish struck out across America's frontiers, built its railroads, fought on both sides of the civil war, captured its major historic moments in print, paint and bronze, led many of its religious denominations, policed its streets, set up its banks, educated its masses, entertained America on its stages and screens and in its sporting arenas, and made ground-breaking contributions in science and engineering. This collection documents fifty Irish people who made an indelible mark on American society, politics and culture. People like the pirate Anne Bonney and Gertrude Brice Kelly, one of New York City''s first surgeons, feature alongside more familiar names such as Maureen O''Hara, Maeve Brennan, Rex Ingram and the architect of the White House James Hoban.About the Dictionary of Irish Biography: The Dictionary of Irish Biography, a research project of the Royal Irish Academy, is the most comprehensive and authoritative biographical dictionary yet published for Ireland. It comprises over 10, 000 lives, which describe and assess the careers of subjects in all fields of endeavour, including politics, law, religion, literature, journalism, architecture, music and the arts, the sciences, medicine, entertainment and sport.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Foreword
- Editors’ note
- 1. Lives on the frontier
- Anne Bonney
- Elizabeth Jackson
- Mary Jemison
- Thomas Fitzpatrick (‘Broken Hand’)
- John Wallace Crawford
- Annie Moore
- 2. Lives of politics
- Sir William Johnson
- Pierce Butler
- Thomas Francis Meagher
- John Morrissey
- Albert Cashier
- 3. Lives in business
- Mathew Carey
- Alexander Brown
- Alexander Turney Stewart
- Peter Fenelon Collier
- Belinda Mulrooney
- John ‘Kerry’ O’Donnell
- 4. Lives on stage and screen
- John McCormack
- Rex Ingram
- Mary Manning
- Geraldine Fitzgerald
- Maureen O’Hara
- 5. Lives in medicine, science and technology
- James Logan
- John Crawford
- John Philip Holland
- Gertrude Brice Kelly
- Kay McNulty
- 6. Lives of faith
- Philip Embury
- ThomasCampbell -Alexander Campbell
- Margaret Haughery
- Mary O’Connell (Sister Anthony)
- Patrick Peyton
- 7. Lives of conscience
- Mary Harris Jones (‘Mother Jones’)
- John Boyle O’Reilly
- Charlotte Grace O’Brien
- Joseph Patrick McDonnell
- Paul O’Dwyer
- 8. Lives of art and architecture
- James Hoban
- John Mulvany
- Augustus Saint-Gaudens
- Charles Donagh Maginnis
- Jerome Connor
- 9. Lives in print
- John Dunlap
- Mary Anne Sadlier
- Michael J. Logan (Micheál Ó Lócháin)
- Margaret Maher
- Richard Kyle Fox
- Carmel Snow
- Maeve Brennan
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgements
- About the editors