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Identifier	Thesis 2013
Author	Mushinsky, Marguerite Frances
Title	The Irish Did Apply: The Exiles Who Took Any Work Available and Built America from the Ground Up
Publisher	Central Connecticut State University
Date	2008
Resource Type	Master's Thesis
Notes	A nation's infrastructure consists of more than roads and highways, and bridges which connect them or span impediments. Infrastructure embraces the basics which keep any organization functioning as it should. In the case of government especially, the quality of its infrastructure is key, for it includes those systems which help citizens communicate, learn, protect themselves and their communities, engage in commerce, and help elect their governance. Nineteenth-century America was deeply engaged in nation-building when the great waves of Irish exiles began to reach her shores, and that group, largest by far of the immigrants of the period, eventually became involved in helping mold virtually every element of her infrastructure. More important, they did so at the start from the very bottom of the labor force—partly because most were unskilled, but largely because they were unwelcome. Driven from their homeland by the Great Famine, poverty, and later the ugliness of the Land War, the Irish immigrant in nineteenth-century America put his back to the work of road-building and rail-laying, and his life on the line to mine the ore which helped pay for America's Civil War. Many also shouldered arms to get into that war directly. What the author of this work does is put faces to some of these imported Americans, for The Irish Did Apply draws from the oral histories of some of the exiled Irish who started their lives in America in Worcester, Massachusetts—and some of these newcomers were her ancestors. Her kin and thousands like them followed former Kerry neighbors to this New England city where they found a variety of factory work—and the ugliness of Yankee prejudice against immigrants and papists. The Irish were an easy target because they were both. Many did apply themselves to rise above their circumstances and by the next generation the more resolute of these counted craftsmen, businessmen, politicians and labor leaders among their ranks, and daughters who were teachers, nurses and managers of successful ventures such as the boardinghouses which served their ethnic countrymen. This study offers personal testimony about some of these Worcesterites and provides family photographs and first-person interviews to flesh out recollections. Illustrations include vintage maps, museum paintings, and a goodbye letter to his mother penned by a young man who went to the gallows in Tralee at the height of the Land War, the last man hanged by the Crown in Kerry.
Subject	Children's songs, Spanish Spanish language -- Study and teaching (Preschool) Music in education
Department	Department of History
Advisor	Caliendo, Gloria Marie
Type	Text
Digital Format	application/pdf
Language	eng
OCLC number	713733926
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