Download or read book Irish Journeys to Iowa written by Patrick L. Coleman and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Irish Iowa written by Timothy Walch and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2019-03-04 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Iowa offered freedom and prosperity to the Irish fleeing famine and poverty. They became the second-largest immigrant group to come to the state, and they acquired influence well beyond their numbers. The first hospitals, schools and asylums in the area were established by Irish nuns. Irish laborers laid the tracks and ran the trains that transported crops to market. Kate Shelley became a national heroine when she saved a passenger train from plunging off a bridge. The Sullivan family became the symbol of sacrifice when they lost their five sons in World War II. Author Timothy Walch details these stories and more on the history and influence of the Irish in the Heartland.
Download or read book The Crowley Family Ireland to Iowa written by Marian Crowley Chamberlain and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of one Irish family who left County Cork during the famine years, came to America where they started a new life, and planted their roots on the prairie of Iowa.
Download or read book Irish Lowrys and Greenfields Iowa Pioneers 1842 1945 written by Marcia R. Roy and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-28 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the enchanting story of Irish Famine survivors, Robert and Sarah Greenfield Lowry, who immigrated to America. Their migration took them from Washington D.C., to New Jersey, to Sangamon and McLean counties in Illinois, and then on to Pocahontas and Humboldt counties in northwestern Iowa. There, they homesteaded and lived out their dreams of owning land. From western County Down, their pioneering journey of over one hundred years is documented with over 900 sourced illustrations, and over 1000 endnotes, including excerpts from collateral family journals from 1875-1942. The portraits, photographs, maps, sketches, and digital images of transcribed documents augment their tale, synergizing for the reader the story of these Irish Iowa Pioneers. How they faced the hazards, hardships, struggles and trials of the early settlements of Iowa, overcome through sheer perseverance and Irish tenacity, is their lasting legacy.
Download or read book The British in Iowa written by Jacob Van der Zee and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of the Irish Settlers in North America written by Thomas D'Arcy McGee and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book But of Course They Were Irish written by Evelyn Sinclair Tierney and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Famine Ships written by Edward Laxton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ___________________ 'A splendid book' - Irish Times Between 1846 and 1851, the Great Famine claimed more than a million Irish lives. The Famine Ships tells the story of the courage and determination of those who crossed the Atlantic in leaky, overcrowded sailing ships and made new lives for themselves, among them William Ford, father of Henry Ford, and twenty-six-year-old Patrick Kennedy, great-grandfather of John F. Kennedy.
Download or read book The Quiet Journey written by Joe Millard and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007-12 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Quiet Journey is one person's life story told in amusing and authentic memoirs from 1936 until 2000. The author, writing to his grandchildren, shares candid childhood stories about Saturday afternoon movies, reading contests, and threshing runs. The memoirs capture a glimpse of attending a one room rural school, growing up on a farm, and living without electricity. Older readers may recall their own memories of catching and killing a rooster for Sunday dinner, or playing fox and geese in the snow. Others may identify with the author as he tells of his first date and learning how to dance. A few may even remember the surprises that awaited them at college. Those who served in the navy during the 1950s may have experienced challenging shore patrol duty in places like Olongapo, Philippines, or visited Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. In addition, former sailors may remember some of their more amusing experiences when at sea. All of these experiences are captured in The Quiet Journey, along with humorous and challenging experiences of teaching in Urbana, Postville, Story City, and Dubuque, Iowa. However, everyone reading The Quiet Journey, will sense the importance of the second half of the twentieth century.
Download or read book Little Journeys to the Homes Of Great lovers written by Elbert Hubbard and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each issue is an individual biography, with each year devoted to a special group of biographies.
Download or read book Catalogue of the State Library of Iowa Miscellaneous written by State Library of Iowa and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Orphan Trains written by Marylin Irvin Holt and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1994-02-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From 1850 to 1930 America witnessed a unique emigration and resettlement of at least 200,000 children and several thousand adults, primarily from the East Coast to the West. This 'placing out,' an attempt to find homes for the urban poor, was best known by the 'orphan trains' that carried the children. Holt carefully analyzes the system, initially instituted by the New York Children's Aid Society in 1853, tracking its imitators as well as the reasons for its creation and demise. She captures the children's perspective with the judicious use of oral histories, institutional records, and newspaper accounts. This well-written volume sheds new light on the multifaceted experience of children's immigration, changing concepts of welfare, and Western expansion. It is good, scholarly social history."—Library Journal
Download or read book A Culinary Journey Though Iowa written by Becky Smoot and published by IA Bed & Breakfast Innkeepers Assoc. This book was released on 2004 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Irish Element in Iowa Up to 1865 written by Mary Helen Carey and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Irish in Iowa written by Homer L. Calkin and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book On the Plain of Snakes written by Paul Theroux and published by Eamon Dolan Books. This book was released on 2019 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legendary travel writer Paul Theroux drives the entire length of the US-Mexico border, then goes deep into the hinterland, on the back roads of Chiapas and Oaxaca, to uncover the rich, layered world behind today's brutal headlines. Paul Theroux has spent his life crisscrossing the globe in search of the histories and peoples that give life to the places they call home. Now, as immigration debates boil around the world, Theroux has set out to explore a country key to understanding our current discourse: Mexico. Just south of the Arizona border, in the desert region of Sonora, he finds a place brimming with vitality, yet visibly marked by both the US Border Patrol looming to the north and mounting discord from within. With the same humanizing sensibility he employed in Deep South, Theroux stops to talk with residents, visits Zapotec mill workers in the highlands, and attends a Zapatista party meeting, communing with people of all stripes who remain south of the border even as their families brave the journey north. From the writer praised for his "curiosity and affection for humanity in all its forms" (New York Times Book Review), On the Plain of Snakes is an exploration of a region in conflict.
Download or read book Dictionary Catalogue written by Illinois State Library and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
