irish americans

Discusses the history, culture, and religion of the Irish, factors encouraging their emigration, and their acceptance as an ethnic group in North America.

Chronicles the life of Malachy McCourt from his journey to America from Limerick, Ireland, through his days as a famous New York bartender, to his life as an actor.

Eleven-year-old Kyna, terrified of water since her family drowned in a storm that nearly took her life as well, works to overcome her phobia when her adoptive parents, Irish immigrants with a mysterious past, rent a cabin on Lake Champlain for the summer.

On January 1, 1892, the day of her fifteenth-birthday, Irish Annie Moore becomes the first immigrant of any nationality to set foot on American soil at the Immigrant Landing Station on Ellis Island.

In 1902 fifteen-year-old Rose travels from Ireland to join family members in Chicago, where she must use all her resources to deal with her father's drinking and her brothers' dangerous involvement in politics.

Fifteen-year-old Molly gains support from her extended Irish American family and enlightenment in Girl Corps philosophy and activities, as she deals with a cheating boyfriend and overbearing best friend.

The fifteen children of Irishman Nelson O'Brien and his aristocratic wife, Mariela Montez, pursue lives of love, happiness, and adventure far beyond the small Pennsylvania town of their birth.

Uneasy with the drunken violence and prejudice of his brother and others in his Irish neighborhood in Boston, Mick makes friends with a somewhat enigmatic Spanish-speaking loner at school.

Nine-year-old Patrick promises his buddies that his baseball hero will come to their playground in Hell's Kitchen, bat for him, and chase the Copperheads out.

When Great-uncle Patrick tries to give his grandnieces a treasure to take with them to America, he accidentally lures a leprechaun into their suitcases--with very lucky results.