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The Irish Are Coming
The stories, struggles, and influence of the Irish in America
Episode Resources and Guest Publishing
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EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum (Dublin)
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The Jeanie Johnston Tall Ship & Famine Museum (Dublin)
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Ulster American Folk Park (Omagh, Co. Tyrone)
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National Famine Museum at Strokestown Park (Roscommon)
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Imirce — University of Galway open-access emigrant-letters database
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To Hell or Barbados: The Ethnic Cleansing of Ireland — Seán O’Callaghan (O’Brien Press/Brandon, 2001)
PUBLISHED WORKS
PUBLISHED WORKS
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Gangs of New York (Scorsese, 2002)
PUBLISHED WORKS
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Plentiful Country: The Great Potato Famine and the Making of Irish New York (Little, Brown and Company, 2024)
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Five Points: The 19th-Century New York City Neighborhood That Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections, and Became the World's Most Notorious Slum (Free Press / Simon & Schuster, 2001)
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City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016)
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Nativism and Slavery: The Northern Know Nothings and the Politics of the 1850s (Oxford University Press, 1992)
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Current work on the Bellevue Complex
PUBLISHED WORKS
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Aiding Ireland: The Great Famine and the Rise of Transnational Philanthropy (New York University Press, 2024)
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Christine Kinealy — famine historian cited in the episode; founding director, Ireland’s Great Hunger Institute, Quinnipiac University
PUBLISHED WORKS
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The Irish in the American Civil War — History Press, 2014
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The Forgotten Irish: Irish Emigrant Experiences in America — History Press, 2017
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Green and Blue: Irish Americans in the Union Military, 1861–1865 — LSU Press
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Laura D Kelley Website
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An Interview with Laura Kelley
PUBLISHED WORKS
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The Irish in New Orleans — UL Press, 2014
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Old St. Patrick's Church, Chicago
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Margaret Haley and the Chicago Teachers Federation
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Grainne sculpture, a gift from Galway, Heritage Green Park next to Old St. Pat's
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Nuns of the Battlefield memorial, Rhode Island Ave NW at M St NW, Washington, DC
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What Parish Are You From? A Chicago Irish Community and Race Relations, Eileen McMahon
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Catherine McAuley and the Walking Nuns
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James A. Mulligan and Chicago's Irish Brigade
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Bishop William J. Quarter
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Civil War Sisters Healing the Wounds of the Nation
PUBLISHED WORKS
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Forging Identities in the Irish World: Melbourne and Chicago, c.1830 to 1922, (Edinburgh University Press, 2022)
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"A woman capable of making a nation," on Mother Agatha O'Brien (The Irish Times)
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"He became Irish in death: the Rafferty and O'Meara murder trials," (Irish Historical Studies, May 2026)
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