Timothy Walch

Irish Iowa (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. März 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781439666296
• Artikelnr.: 56226900

Autorenporträt

Timothy Walch is the director emeritus of the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and a longtime member of the Iowa Historical Records Advisory Board. Dr. Walch is the author or editor of more than twenty books and hundreds of essays and reviews on a wide range of historical topics. His interest in the Irish is manifest in the Timothy Walch Collection of Irish and Catholic Americana at the St. Ambrose University Library in Davenport, Iowa.