The Unstoppable Irish: Songs and Integration of the New York Irish, 1783-1883

This unique book captures the rise of New York's passionately musical Irish Catholics and provides a compelling history of early New York City.

The Unstoppable Irish follows the changing fortunes of New York's Irish Catholics, commencing with the evacuation of British military forces in late 1783 and concluding one hundred years later with the completion of the initial term of the city's first Catholic mayor. During that century, Hibernians first coalesced and then rose in uneven progression...