Bøker av Lawrence J. McCaffrey

The author documents his thesis that American urban history begins with the arrival of large numbers of Irish Catholic immigrants in the 1820s. He argues that Irish Americans' material success, which took them as a group from the ghetto to middle-class, has caused a fading of Irish identity.

A history of modern Ireland which covers the political, social, economic, intellectual and cultural dimensions of the country's development, from the origins of the Irish question to the present day. A new introductory chapter covers the period prior to Union and a new concluding chapter takes Ireland into the twenty-first century.

Irish historians have minimized Daniel O'Connell's role in the Irish liberty movement in favor of later nationalist leaders, largely because of his failure in the 1843 movement for repeal of the Act of Union.

From 1800 to 1922 the Irish Question was the most emotional and divisive issue in British politics.