One of Edward T. O'Donnell's major areas of research and writing is Irish and Irish American history.  Click below on the links to learn more.

Primary Sources in Irish and Irish American History
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Books on Irish and Irish American History 
1001 Things Everyone Should Know About Irish American History

Land of Promise: The Story of the Irish in America 
 

My Weekly History Column for the Irish Echo
"Hibernian Chronicle"
 

Scholarly/Academic Writings on Irish and Irish American History 

"How the Irish Became Urban: The Irish Experience in Large American Cities," Journal of Urban History 25 (January 1998): 271-286.
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“The Irish and Machine Politics in New York City,” Michael Glazier, ed., Encyclopedia of the Irish in America (South Bend: University of Notre Dame Press, 2000): 887-89. 

"'The Scattered Debris of the Irish Nation': The Famine Irish and New York City, 1845-1855" in Margaret Crawford, ed., The Hungry Stream: Emigration from Ireland during the Great Famine (Institute of Irish Studies Press, 1997): 49-60.  Click here to open a pdf version. 

"United Front: The Irish and the American Labor Movement," in Terry Golway, The Irish in America (New York: Hyperion Press, 1997): 153-58. Click here to open a pdf version.

"'Though Not An Irishman': Henry George and the American Irish," American Journal of Economics and Sociology 56 (October 1997): 407-419. Click here to open a pdf version. 

"Hibernians Versus Hebrews?: A New Look at the 1902 Jacob Joseph Funeral Riot," forthcoming, Journal of the Gilded Age & Progressive Era v. 6:, n. 2 (April 2007).
 

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