The Irish Americans: The Immigrant Experience

The Irish Americans tells the story of those seven million men, women, and children who left their native land for a chance at a better life. Many came searching for the streets they had heard were paved with gold and found that not only were they not paved with gold, the streets were not paved at all and the Irish were expected to pave them. And so they did. And not only did the Irish pave, they built the railroads, the bridges, and the canals, as well as many city skyscrapers. In the proc...