The Paddy Camps - The Irish of Lowell 1821-61

Mitchell, Brian C.

ISBN 10: 0252013719 / ISBN 13: 9780252013713

Published by University of Illinois Press, Urbana, 1988

About this Item

IN NEAR FINE CONDITION. ASSOCIATION COPY - from the personal collection of Francis O'Brien, author and legendary Maine bookseller. Inscription on ffp reads "A Little Diversion for your stay at Mercy - June 6, 1888, Frank P. Wood. With signature of F. M. O'Brien and note "A gift from Frank Wood 6/12/88." ALSO - laid-in is a strip of paper with O'Brien's notes. xiii [1] 247pp, bound in original green cloth with bright gilt lettering, binding and hinges tight. Slight bow to front cover. ILLUSTRATED THROUGHOUT. Seller Inventory # 003286

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Paddy Camps - The Irish of Lowell 1821-61

Publisher: University of Illinois Press, Urbana

Publication Date: 1988

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Edition: First Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

The dramatic story of the fights and compromises that shaped an Irish community

Review:

"In Mitchell's work we see the Lowell Irish as an immigrant community who struggled with poverty and discrimination and tried to establish a foothold in a new and sometimes hostile land. The emergence of leaders, the building of churches, and the development of a parochial school system represented the flowering of a community, not merely declension from a golden age of native laborers in an industrial paradise."