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Unintended Consequences: The Story of Irish Immigration to the U.S. and How America's Door was Closed to the Irish

Unintended Consequences: The Story of Irish Immigration to the U.S. and How America's Door was Closed to the Irish

by Ray O'Hanlon
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Unintended Consequences: The Story of Irish Immigration to the U.S. and How America's Door was Closed to the Irish

Unintended Consequences: The Story of Irish Immigration to the U.S. and How America's Door was Closed to the Irish

by Ray O'Hanlon

Overview

'Unintended Consequences feels like the definitive version of a story that should be much better known,' Sunday Business Post
Unintended Consequences reveals how America's door closed on legal Irish immigration in the 1960s, and how America's Irish mounted a counterattack when nation-changing political forces were sweeping the country during the era of civil rights, political assassinations, and the Vietnam War. This book looks at the full historical background to Irish migration across the Atlantic, and how the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 brought a near total halt to this westward flow. Successive organisations championed the undocumented Irish, and the fight continues to this day, but this is a new America, where, in recent years, there has been growing hostility to immigrants of every nationality. Ray O'Hanlon has spent over three decades reporting on battles over comprehensive U.S. immigration reform, and this Unintended Consequences is the story of the Irish past, its present, and most uncertain future in the 'land of the free'.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781785373787
Publisher: Irish Academic Press
Publication date: 04/06/2021
Pages: 368
Sales rank: 394,833
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Ray O’Hanlon is the editor of the New York City-published Irish Echo newspaper. A native of Dublin, O’Hanlon has reported from four continents in a newspaper career spanning forty-one years. In addition to his work as a reporter and editor, O’Hanlon has been a frequent contributor to US, Irish and British media outlets reporting on Ireland, Irish American affairs, and Anglo-Irish relations. His book, The New Irish Americans (1998) was the recipient of a Washington Irving Book Award, and The South Lawn Plot, his first fiction work, was published in 2011.

Table of Contents

Preface ix

1 Searching for a Savior 1

2 Mustering for Battle 7

3 1965: The Year of the New Divide 10

4 The Fading Drumbeat 13

5 Teddy 18

6 The Fighting Irish in Retreat 23

7 The Irish Fight Back 28

8 Revulsion, Rejection, Retreat 39

9 Restless, Ever Restless 49

10 Annie Moore and the Power of Sentiment 54

11 Cold Prose Loudly Proclaimed 64

12 A New Divide 70

13 Read All About It! 74

14 Saved Amid Depression 78

15 Cometh the Hour 83

16 The Hour Cometh 90

17 Back to Boston 97

18 On Wings and Prayers 103

19 A Favorite Son Rises 107

20 A Favorite Son Fails 113

21 The Torch is Passed 118

22 Paddy Goes Marching Away 123

23 Aliens Ahoy! 128

24 All Aboard! 136

25 Finally! 143

26 An Explanation of the Problem 151

27 Attention Ladies and Gentlemen 158

28 The Road to Washington 164

29 To the Hill 171

30 The Swinging Door 179

31 A Stunned Loudness 187

32 Peaks and Fallows 196

33 A Measure of Success 204

34 Troubles Behind, Troubles Ahead 210

35 The Boys from Massachusetts 215

36 To the Banner Born 221

37 Numbers Up, Numbers Down 228

38 Like Summer Leaves 234

39 Christmas Postponed 241

40 One Big Bust 247

41 The Morrison Express 255

42 The Train Arrives 263

43 McCain on McLean 269

44 No Going Back 276

45 Legalize the Irish! 281

46 McCain's Embrace 288

47 Yes We Can, Well Maybe 294

48 A Last Full Measure 302

49 An Anniversary Falls 309

50 A State O'Chassis 315

'Afterwords' 327

Index 339

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