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The Irish in the San Francisco Bay Area : essays on good fortune
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The Irish in the San Francisco Bay Area : essays on good fortune

Author: Donald E Jordan; Timothy J O'Keefe; Irish Literary and Historical Society. Executive Council.
Publisher: San Francisco, Calif. : Executive Council of the Irish Literary and Historical Society, 2005.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : English
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Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Donald E Jordan; Timothy J O'Keefe; Irish Literary and Historical Society. Executive Council.
ISBN: 0931180007 9780931180002
OCLC Number: 64691449
Description: x, 310 : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.
Contents: A literature of good fortune / Matthew L. Jockers --
Irish Catholic identity and California public life: Peter Yorke versus C.K. McClatchy, 1890-1916 / Steven M. Avella --
Vignette: the Irish Literary and Historical Society of San Francisco / Donald Jordan --
California clash: Irish and Chinese labor in San Francisco, 1850-1870 / Daniel J. Meissner --
St. Peter's Parish in San Francisco: the rise and eclispe of an Irish parish, 1913-1964 / Jeffrey M. Burns --
Vignette: Michael Casey (1860-1937) / Peter Imperial --
Vignette: Vivian Moore Hallinan (1910-1999) and Vincent Hallinan (1896-1992) / James P. Walsh --
Old age pipers and new age punters: Irish traditional music and musicians in San Francisco, 1850-2000 / Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin --
Women in Irish dance in San Francisco, 1900-1935 / Lynn Lubamersky --
Maggie's Boarding House: Irish-American assimilation in San Francisco, 1910-1930 --
Vignette: An Irishman goes to San Francisco / Michael Corrigan --
Pioneers in the classroom: Irish-American teachers in San Francisco in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Janet Nolan --
Educating Catholic young men--"Princiaplly Irish": men's Catholic colleges in the San Francisco Bay Area / Timothy J. O'Keefe --
Vignette: Frank Quinn remembers: Irish oral history of the Mission District / Cecilia McDonnell --
Diplomatic snapshots: the Irish consul in San Francisco, 1933-1947 / Dermot Keogh --
San José-Silicon Valley and Ireland / Tom McEnery --
Vignette: San Francisco's Robert Emmet monument / Timothy J. O'Keefe --
Fragments of identity, lost and found / Kevin Starr --
The evolution of the thesis: the Irish experience in California was different / James P. Walsh --
In memoriam: Donald E. Jordan, Jr. (1945-2003) / Robert Tracy.
Responsibility: Donald Jordan and Timothy J. O'Keefe, editors.
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