THE REVOLUTIONARY: THOMAS ADDIS EMMET
Books
Anbinder, Tyler. City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016.
Bayor, Ronald H., and Timothy J. Meagher. The New York Irish. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.
Bourke, Richard, and Ian McBride. The Princeton History of Modern Ireland. Lawrenceville: Princeton University Press, 2016.
Brundage, David T. Irish Nationalists in America: The Politics of Exile, 1798–1998. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.
Burrows, Edwin G., and Mike Wallace. Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
Campbell, Malcolm. Ireland’s New Worlds: Immigrants, Politics, and Society in the United States and Australia, 1815–1922. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2008
Elliott, Marianne. Wolfe Tone. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2012.
Emmet, Thomas Addis. Incidents of My Life: Thomas Addis Emmet. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1911.
——— . Memoir of Thomas Addis and Robert Emmet: With Their Ancestors and Immediate Family. New York: Emmet Press, 1915.
Flanagan, Thomas. The Year of the French. New York: New York Review Books Classics, 2004.
Ford, Clyde W. The Hero with an African Face: Mythic Wisdom of Traditional Africa. New York: Bantam, 2000.
Foster, Robert F. Modern Ireland: 1600–1972. London: Penguin Books, 1990.
Geoghegan, Patrick M. Robert Emmet: A Life. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2002.
Glazier, Michael. The Encyclopedia of the Irish in America. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1999.
Golway, Terry. For the Cause of Liberty: A Thousand Years of Ireland’s Heroes. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001.
——— . Irish Rebel: John Devoy and America’s Fight for Ireland’s Freedom. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998.
Haines, Charles G. Memoir of Thomas Addis Emmet. New York: G. & C. & H. Carvill, 1829.
Hayden, Tom. Irish on the Inside: In Search of the Soul of Irish America. London: Verso, 2003.
Kinealy, Christine. New History of Ireland. Stroud: History Press, 2008.
King, Rufus, and Charles R. King. The Life and Correspondence of Rufus King. New York: Putnam, 1894.
Lecky, William E. H. A History of Ireland in the Eighteenth Century. Cambridge,UK: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Madden, Richard Robert. The Life and Times of Robert Emmet. New York: P. M. Haverty, 1857.
——— . The United Irishmen, Their Lives and Times. London: J. Madden, 1842.
Stephen, Small. Political Thought in Ireland 1776–1798: Republicanism, Patriotism, and Radicalism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Tone, Theobald W., and William T. W. Tone. The Life of Theobald Wolfe Tone. London: Whittaker, Treacher, and Arnot, 1831.
Wilson, David A. United Irishmen, United States: Immigrant Radicals in the Early Republic. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1998.
Yanoso, Nicole A. The Irish and the American Presidency. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2016.
Magazines
Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr. “The United Irishmen and their American Legacy.” Irish America, February/March 2016.
Websites
Trinity College Dublin. “Ireland in Rebellion: 1782-1916.” YouTube.https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL55XqDjybyL_HtaZQSfy0ljqYL3iR7YGS.
THE CARETAKER: MARGERT HAUGHERY
Books
Margaret of New Orleans. Edited and compiled by a Friend of the Family. New Orleans: 1913.
Martinez, Raymond J. The Immortal Margaret Haughery. New Orleans: Hope Publications, 1956.
Strousse, Flora. Margaret Haughery: Bread Woman of New Orleans. New York: P. J. Kenedy, 1961.
Whyte, Robert. The Ocean Plague: Or, a Voyage to Quebec in an Irish Emigrant Vessel: Embracing a Quarantine at Grosse Isle in 1847: with Notes Illustrative of the Ship-pestilence of that Fatal Year. Boston: Coolidge and Wiley, 1848.
Widmer, Mary L. Margaret, Friend of Orphans. Gretna, LA: Pelican Publishing Company, 1996.
Newspapers
Daily Picayune. “Margaret.” Feb. 10, 1882.
Theses
Luck, Katharine A. “Finding Margaret Haughery: The Forgotten and Remembered Lives of New Orleans’s “Bread Woman” In the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.” Dissertation, University of New Orleans, 2014.
Websites
Carrigallen.com. “Margaret Gaffney: The Bread Woman of New Orleans.” http://www.carrigallen.com/margaretgaffney.htm.
Kelley, Laura D. “Margaret Haughery.” KnowLouisiana.org. http://www.knowlouisiana.org/entry/margaret-haughery.
Langan, Sheila. “Ireland, New Orleans, the Famine and 200 years of history.” IrishCentral.com. http://www.irishcentral.com/culture/ireland-and-new-orleans-to-celebrate-200-years-of-shared-history-photos.
Margaret of New Orleans Birthplace. “Margaret’s Life.” http://margaretsbirthplace.com/Margaret.html.
Villarrubia, Eleonore. “An Indomitable Woman: Margaret Haughery, The Breadwoman of New Orleans.” Catholicism.org. http://catholicism.org/an-indomitable-woman-margaret-haughery-the-breadwoman-of-new-orleans-2.html.
THE ORGANIZER: MARY “MOTHER” JONES
Books
Atkinson, Linda. Mother Jones, the Most Dangerous Woman in America. New York: Crown Publishers, 1978.
Donnelly, James S., and Samuel Clark. Irish Peasants: Violence and Political Unrest, 1780–1914. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2003.
Foner, Philip S. Mother Jones Speaks: Speeches and Writings of a Working-Class Fighter. New York: Pathfinder, 1983.
Gorn, Elliott J. Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in America. New York: Hill and Wang, 2001.
Jones, Mary Harris. Autobiography of Mother Jones. Chicago: C. H. Kerr & Company, 1925.
Macintyre, Angus D. The Liberator: Daniel O’Connell and the Irish Party, 1830–1847. London: Hamilton, 1965.
Newspapers
New York Times. “Haywood Comes Out against Socialism; Tells Industrial Commission It Is Wholly Incapable of Bettering the Labor World; Mother Jones Heard, Too.” May 13, 1915.
——— . “Mother Jones Asks Aid for Labor Men.” May 15, 1915.
——— . “Mother Jones Commends Soviets.” Jan. 10, 1921.
——— . “Mother Jones Dies; Led Mine Workers.” Dec. 1, 1930.
THE SOLDIER: ALBERT D. J. CASHIER
Books
Blanton, DeAnne, and Lauren M. Cook. They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the American Civil War. Stroud: Sutton, 2005.
Groom, Winston. Vicksburg, 1863. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.
Tóibín, Colm, and Diarmaid Ferriter. The Irish Famine: A Documentary. London: Profile Books, 2001.
Wood, Wales W. A History of the Ninety-Fifth Regiment, Illinois Infantry Volunteers. Belvidere, IL: Boone County Historical Society, 1993.
Correspondence
Breuer, Jan, and Jackie Rever. Correspondence with author. March–April 2016.
Hodgers, Don. Correspondence with author. March–April 2016.
O’Donnell, Cheryl. Correspondence with author. March–April 2016.
Journals
Clausius, Gerhard P. “The Little Soldier of the 95th: Albert D.J. Cashier.” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 51, no. 4 (1958).
Davis, Rodney O. “Private Albert Cashier As Regarded by His/Her Comrades.” Illinois Historical Journal 82, no. 2 (1989).
Faulkner, Pádraig. “A County Louth Farm on the Eve of and During the Famine: Burren Farm Accounts’ Book, 1839 to 1848.” Journal of the County Louth Archaeological and Historical Society 23, no. 4 (1996).
Kessel, Reuben A., and Armen A. Alchian. “Real Wages in the North During the Civil War: Mitchell’s Data Reinterpreted.” The Journal of Law and Economics 2 (1959).
Petterchak, Janice. “A Conversation on History.” Dispatch from the Illinois State Historical Society 4, no. 13 (1991).
Newspapers
Chicago Tribune. “Find Old Soldier Is Just a Woman.” May 4, 1913.
Conklin, Mike. “Jennie Came Marching Home: Downstate Women Battle to Preserve the Memory of a Civil War Soldier Who Spent Most of Her Life Posing as a Man.” Chicago Tribune, Sept. 5, 2001.
National Tribune. “Served as a Man.” Nov. 25, 1915.
Omaha World-Herald. “Ives Identifies the Woman Veteran of the War.” May 20, 1913.
——— . “Omahan Tells of Girl Who Fought as a Man.” May 28, 1921.
Theses
Lannon, Mary C., and Lucy L. Tasher. “Albert D.J. Cashier and the Ninety-Fifth Illinois Infantry (1844–1915).” Dissertation, Illinois State University, 1969.
Archives
AGO, carded medical records, 95th Illinois, cards for Cashier, Albert, RG 94. National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, DC.
AGO, CMSR, 95th Illinois Infantry, Cashier, Albert D. J., RG 94. National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, DC.
THE MUCKRAKER: SAMUEL S. MCCLURE
Books
Lyon, Peter. Success Story: The Life and Times of S.S. McClure. New York: Scribner, 1963.
McClure, S. S., and Willa Cather. The Autobiography of S. S. McClure. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1997.
Archives
McClure Publishing Company Archives. Special Collections, University of Delaware Library, Newark, DE.
Websites
Encyclopedia.com. “Samuel Sidney McClure.” http://www.encyclopedia.com/people/literature-and-arts/journalism-and-publishing-biographies/samuel-sidney-mcclure.
Spartacus-educational.com. “Samuel McClure.” http://spartacus-educational.com/USAmcclure.htm.
THE FATHER: FATHER EDWARD J. FLANAGAN
Books
Curtis, James. Spencer Tracy: A Biography. New York: Knopf, 2011.
Ivey, James R. Boys Town: The Constant Spirit. Chicago: Arcadia Publishing, 2000.
Lonnborg, Barbara, and Thomas J. Lynch. Father Flanagan’s Legacy: Hope and Healing for Children. Boys Town, NE: Boys Town Press, 2003.
Oursler, Fulton, and Will Oursler. Father Flanagan of Boys Town. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1949.
Reilly, Hugh J., and Kevin Warneke. Father Flanagan of Boys Town: A Man of Vision. Boys Town, NE: Boys Town Press, 2008.
Stevens, Clifford. I Remember Father Flanagan. Bloomington, IN: iUniverse, 2013.
Magazines
Doherty, Edward. “The Boy Who Shot His Father.” Liberty, Oct. 9, 1937.
Levy, Henry W. “Henry Monsky: 1890-1947.” American Jewish Yearbook 49 (1948).
Lewis, Frederick. “Spencer Tracy Conquers Himself.” Liberty, Oct. 9, 1937.
Review of Suffer the Little Children: The Inside Story of Ireland’s Industrial Schools. Publishers Weekly, Apr. 2, 2001.
Newspapers
Biga, Leo Adam. “Flanagan-Monsky Example of Social Justice and Interfaith Harmony Still Shows the Way 60 Years Later.” Jewish Press, Feb. 15, 2008.
Kelly, Jacques. “A brief meeting with mentor of Babe Ruth.” Baltimore Sun, Feb. 6, 1995.
Websites
Adomites, Paul, and Saul Wisnia. “Babe Ruth Enters St. Mary’s Industrial School for Boys.” Howstuffworks.com. http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/babe-ruth2.htm.
Biography.com. “Babe Ruth.” http://www.biography.com/people/babe-ruth-9468009.
Boys Town. “Hall of History.” http://www.boystown.org/about/visit-the-village/tours/hall-of-history.
——— . “Helping Children & Families Across America.” http://www.boystown.org/locations.
Father Flanagan League. “Father Flanagan’s Story.” http://www.fatherflanagan.org/biography.php.
German American Society. “Our History.” http://www.germanamericansociety.org/about-us/our-history/.
History.com. “Japanese American Relocation.” http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/japanese-american-relocation.
Social Welfare History Project. “Father Edward J. Flanagan (1886–1948): Catholic Priest and Founder of Boys Town, Omaha, NE.” http://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu//people/flanagan-father-edward-j/.
St. Joseph Seminary, Dunwoodie. Home page. http://www.dunwoodie.edu/.
Speeches
Flanagan, Edward. “To Cure, Not to Punish.” Presented at the National Conference of Catholic Charities.
THE DIRECTOR: REX INGRAM
Books
O’Leary, Liam. Rex Ingram: Master of the Silent Cinema. New York: Barnes & Noble Imports, 1980.
Barton, Ruth. Rex Ingram: Visionary Director of the Silent Screen. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2014.
Magazines
Askari, Kevah. “Art School Cinema: Rex Ingram and the Lessons of the Studio.” Film History 26, no. 2 (2014).
Grantham, Bill. “The Silent Master: Rex Ingram.” Irish America, Aug./Sept. 2012.
Websites
Trinity College Department of Film Studies. “Rex Ingram: 1893–1950.” https://www.tcd.ie/film/rexingram/.
THE AUTHOR: MAEVE BRENNAN
Books
Bourke, Angela. Maeve Brennan: Homesick at The New Yorker. Berkeley: Counterpoint Press, 2016.
Brennan, Maeve. The Long-Winded Lady: Notes from The New Yorker. Dublin: Stinging Fly Press, 2017.
——— . The Rose Garden: Short Stories. Washington, DC: Counterpoint, 2001.
——— . The Springs of Affection. Dublin: Stinging Fly Press, 2016.
——— . The Visitor. London: Atlantic Books, 2002.
Enright, Anne. Introduction to The Springs of Affection, by Maeve Brennan. Dublin: Stinging Fly Press, 2016.
McKeon, Belinda. Introduction to The Long-Winded Lady: Notes from The New Yorker, by Maeve Brennan. Dublin: Stinging Fly Press, 2017.
Moylan, Clare. Introduction. The Visitor, by Maeve Brennan, London: Atlantic Books, 2002.
Magazines
Hawthorne, Mary. “A Traveller in Residence.” London Review of Books 19, no. 22 (Nov. 13, 1997).
THE PEACEMAKER: NIALL O’DOWD
Books
O’Clery, Conor. Daring Diplomacy: Clinton’s Secret Search for Peace in Ireland. Boulder, CO: Roberts Rinehart Publishers, 1997.
O’Dowd, Niall. An Irish Voice. Dublin: O’Brien, 2010.
Rhodeen, Penn. Peacerunner. Dallas: BenBella Books, 2016.