Forging Identities in the Irish World

Presents the experiences of two burgeoning cities and the Irish people that helped to establish Irish identity within them Provides an in-depth study of the Irish in Melbourne and the ethnic social history of Chicago’s earliest decadesBased on primary sources from across the United Kingdom, Ireland, the United States and Australia Brings together religious, urban, and civic society histories to ask new questions of Irish diaspora history Set within colonial Melbourne and Chicago, this book explo