|
|
Article: Discarding the prototype.(The Irish in the San Francisco Bay Area: Essays on Good Fortune)(Book review)
- Article from:
- Irish Literary Supplement
- Article date:
- March 22, 2007
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2007 Irish Studies Program. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
DONALD JORDAN AND TIMOTHY J. O'KEEFE, EDITORS The Irish in the San Francisco Bay Area." Essays on Good Fortune The Executive Council of the Irish Literary and Historical Society San Francisco, California, 2005, $25.00
WHILE A GRADUATE STUDENT at the University of Iowa, Professor James Edmund Roohan cautioned me not to assume that Boston's Irish were prototype Irish Americans. He pointed out that Irish Catholics moving west successfully responded to less or no nativist bigotry and to open societies with loads of employment prospects. Since the 1950 Roohan-McCaffrey conversations, historians have discovered and reported Irish-American regional diversity.
...