ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Introduction
CHAPTER 1 Varieties of Irishness
CHAPTER 2 Ireland and New Jersey
in the Seventeenth Century
CHAPTER 3 Ulster, Ireland, and New Jersey
in the Eighteenth Century
CHAPTER 4 The Nineteenth-Century Experience
CHAPTER 5 A Trickle Becomes a Flood
CHAPTER 6 The Twentieth Century:
From History to Heritage
CHAPTER 7 The End of the Journey
Epilogue
NOTES
INDEX
Dermot Quinn is a professor of history at Seton Hall University. Educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and New College, Oxford, he is author of Patronage and Piety: English Roman Catholics and Politics, 1850-1900 and Understanding Northern Ireland.
Professor Quinn does more than simply take note of the Irish
surnames that popped up in old documents. He asks important
questions, the kind rarely raised in ethnocentric histories. What,
he asks, did it mean to be Irish in New Jersey in 1690? And did it
matter?
*New York Times*
Quinn offers a historian's and an Irishman's perspective on the
second most populous ethnic group in New Jersey, and does it with a
critical eye, salted with Irish wit. He goes beyond the stereotypes
and offers a history of the Irish in New Jersey that will provide
new information even to those who think they know the story
already.
*OSB, New Jersey Catholic Historical Records Commission*
This gem of a book is far from being either simple ethnic
celebration or uncritical local history. It is a very subtle
analysis of the phenomenon of the Irish in America with a special
emphasis on New Jersey.
*professor emeritus of history, Fordham University*
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