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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewWinner of the 1990 Robert Athearn Award of the Western History Association and an Honorable Mention for the 1990 James S. Donnelly, Sr., Prize in History and the Social Sciences from the American Conference for Irish Studies.
"This is a very important book, perhaps one of the most important and best books ever written on Irish-American workers. "--
Journal of American History "Brings a new level of sophistication to the field of American history. David Emmons has written an elegant account of a remarkable western community, and one of the most impressive studies of the postfamine Irish."--
Journal of Economic History"Emmons has untangled the threads of Irish-American nationalism, worker radicalism, class divisions within the Irish community, and the effect of a new generation of Irish immigrants on old Irish associational life. It is a masterful job.--Mary Murphy,
Montana: Magazine of Western HistoryTable of ContentsPreface xi
Introduction: Out of Ireland 1
1. From Ireland To Butte 13
2. Remembered Pasts 35
3. Butte, America: Building an Irish Community 61
4. Church, Party, and Fraternity: The Irish and Their Associations 94
5. Safe and Steady Work: The Irish and The Hazards of Butte 133
6. Irishmen and Workers: The Origins of a Western Working-Class Conservatism 180
7. Irish Worker Conservatism and The Butte Miner's Union, 1880-1910 221
8. The Aristocracy Besieged: The BMU, The Enclave, and The New Immigration, 1910-1914 255
9. The Patriot Game: Butte's Irish and The Causes of Ireland 292
10. Irishtown at War: The German Alliance and Worker Protest, 1900-1918 340
Epilogue: The Post War Years 398
Sources Consulted 413
Index 435
