Amsterdam Free Library

Manuscript of "How the Irish Build the U.S.A"

LA 947.7 Cha. Portfolio containing summary of the manuscript of "How the Irish Built the U.S.A" by Harvey Chalmers II of Amsterdam, NY

Chapters one to twelve tell the story of Ireland from Brian Boru to the depths of the famine and endemic typhus of 1845-48 and the transition of great numbers of the Irish People to the U.S.A., 1848-1852. Chapters twelve through eighteen tell of what the Irish did in the U.S.A. to establish themselves, and in doing so "Built the U.S.A."