This book explores the story of the Irish in America and southern culture. The Irish who migrated to the Old South struggled to make a new home in a land where

He looks at what we think we know about the first Irish, where they came from and why they seem to have landed here long after they colonised our neighbours. He

Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan is a monumental and pathbreaking study of early Irish Protestant and Catholic migration to America. Through exhaustive re

'...from time to time a study comes along that truly can be called ‘path breaking,’ ‘seminal,’ ‘essential,’ a ‘must read.’ How the Irish Became