Chapters : 1. A Tradition Grows / 2. The Famine Generation / 3. City Shelter / 4. Working To Live / 5. Church and School / 6. Clans and Causes / 7. Hibernia Philadelphia / 8. The Tradition Persists / 9. The Urban Irishman
Summary
This is a book about one people in two countries. It is about an ancient people - the Irish - engaged with the tumultuous forces of modern city growth. Although it deals with only a portion of the great outpouring of population from Ireland that settled in American cities, it attempts to discern the process by which Irish countrymen became American urbanites....The technical and industrial expansion of our great cities in the last century took place within the vast panorama of transatlantic migration. The ways in which harassed and struggling people from rural backgrounds learned to live amid the extraordinary new environment of industrial urbanism makes a fascinating drama of human endeavor and adjustment. [Preface]
