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The dramatic story of the fights and compromises that shaped an Irish community

About the Author

Brian C. Mitchell is president of Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. 

Reviews

"In Mitchell's work we see the Lowell Irish as an immigrant community who struggled with poverty and discrimination and tried to establish a foothold in a new and sometimes hostile land. The emergence of leaders, the building of churches, and the development of a parochial school system represented the flowering of a community, not merely declension from a golden age of native laborers in an industrial paradise."