Irish

The Irish in Connecticut are so intertwined with the history of the Catholic Church here that much of the relevant literature is listed below under "Catholics" in the "Religion" section of this bibliography.

O'Brien, Michael J. Pioneer Irish in New England (New York P.J. Kennedy and Sons, 1937) is full of interesting materials. See especially chapters 8, 9, 12, and 19 for Connecticut references. His emphasis is on the seventeenth century. In "The Fenians of the Long-ago Sixties," Papers of the NHCHS 8( 1914):277-88, O'Brien discusses efforts to enlist the aid of Irish-American veterans of the Civil War in the cause of independence. He also deals with the trans-Atlantic connections.

Stone, Frank Andrews, director of the World Education Project at the University of Connecticut has prepared a curriculum guide for the multi-ethnic Heritage Series mentioned above, The Irish: In Their Homeland, In America, in Connecticut (Storrs: University of Connecticut, 1975). See also the dissertation by William Michael Johnson listed above.