David M. Emmons is a professor emeritus of history at the University of Montana. His books include The Butte Irish: Class and Ethnicity in an American Mining Town, 1875-1925 andBeyond the American Pale: The Irish in the West, 1845-1910.
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Acknowledgments Introduction: The Characteristics of an Erratic Culture "Ancestral Sorrows": The Making of an Irish Catholic Culture "And a Fourth There Is Who Wants Me to Dig": Patsy Caliban and the Limits of American Liberalism A Transnational "Freemasonry of the Disinherited": The Premaking of an Oppositional Irish American Working Class An Irish Catholic Working Class: The Butte "Rising" of 1917 Celtic Communists: "The Irish Contingent" among America's Radicals A "People Very unlike Any Other People": The Irish Catholic Challenge to American Capitalism "The Irish Movement Has Forgotten to Be American": Woodrow Wilson and the Transatlantic Great Red Green Scare Epilogue. The Durability of Culture: The Erratic '20s Notes Bibliography Index
"This book is remarkably vivid and a delight to read. Emmons's key contribution is to place anti-Catholicism and the resulting Protestant-Catholic division at the center of his analyses of labor, immigration, Irish nationalism, and a host of other issues. A major achievement."--David Brundage, author of Irish Nationalists in America: The Politics of Exile, 1798-1998