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Greatest Irish Americans of the 20th century / edited by Patricia Harty ; foreword by Edward Kennedy.
Contributor(s): Harty, Patricia
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BookPublisher: Dublin : Oak Tree Press, 2001Description: xiv, 196 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 1860762069; 1860762077 ; 9781860762062.Subject(s): Irish Americans -- BiographyDDC classification: 920.00929162
Contents:
Art/Great Builders -- Business -- Community/Educators/Explorers -- Labor Leaders/Law/Medicine -- Nationalists/Politics -- Song & Dance -- Sport -- Stage & Screen -- The Services -- Writers & Media.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This volume offers a celebration of the Irish Americans of the 20th century, as chosen by the editors of Irish America Magazine.
Art/Great Builders -- Business -- Community/Educators/Explorers -- Labor Leaders/Law/Medicine -- Nationalists/Politics -- Song & Dance -- Sport -- Stage & Screen -- The Services -- Writers & Media.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Note on Contributors (p. viii)
- Acknowledgements (p. ix)
- Foreword (p. xi)
- Introduction (p. xiii)
- Art/Great Builders (p. 2)
- Margaret Bourke-White (p. 4)
- Georgia O'Keeffe (p. 5)
- Augustus Saint Gaudens (p. 6)
- Henry Ford (p. 7)
- John Philip Holland (p. 8)
- William Mulholland (p. 9)
- Louis Henri Sullivan (p. 10)
- Leaves of Pain (p. 11)
- Business (p. 14)
- Brian P. Burns (p. 16)
- Chuck Dolan (p. 16)
- Charles Feeney (p. 17)
- Thomas J. Flatley (p. 18)
- William J. Flynn (p. 18)
- Merv Griffin (p. 19)
- Denis Kelleher (p. 20)
- Joseph Patrick Kennedy (p. 20)
- Irish Memories (p. 22)
- Donald Keough (p. 28)
- Peter Lynch (p. 28)
- Scott G. McNealy (p. 29)
- Andrew Mellon (p. 30)
- Thomas J. Moran (p. 30)
- Thomas Murphy (p. 31)
- Tony O'Reilly (p. 32)
- John Quinn (p. 33)
- Michael J. Roarty (p. 34)
- Dan Rooney (p. 34)
- John T. Sharkey (p. 35)
- Jack Welch (p. 36)
- Two Grandfathers (p. 37)
- Community/Educators/Explorers (p. 40)
- Margaret Tobin Brown (p. 42)
- Dorothy Day (p. 43)
- Loretta Brennan Glucksman (p. 45)
- Father Edward Flanagan (p. 46)
- John Cardinal O'Connor (p. 46)
- Richard Cardinal Cushing (p. 47)
- Paul O'Dwyer (p. 48)
- Margaret Higgins Sanger (p. 49)
- Andrew Greeley (p. 50)
- Eoin McKiernan (p. 51)
- Annie Sullivan (p. 52)
- Eileen Collins (p. 53)
- General Michael Collins (p. 54)
- Kathryn Sullivan (p. 55)
- In Pursuit of my Ancestral Heritage (p. 56)
- Labor Leaders/Law/Medicine (p. 62)
- Teddy Gleason (p. 64)
- Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (p. 65)
- Mary Harris "Mother" Jones (p. 66)
- George Meany (p. 67)
- Mike Quill (p. 68)
- John Sweeney (p. 69)
- William J. Brennan, Jr. (p. 70)
- Vincent Hallinan (p. 70)
- Sandra Day O'Connor (p. 72)
- Dr. Kevin Cahill (p. 73)
- Kathy and William Magee (p. 73)
- The Perils of Pat (p. 74)
- Nationalists/Politics (p. 76)
- Eamon de Valera (p. 78)
- John Devoy (p. 79)
- Patrick Ford (p. 80)
- Joe McGarrity (p. 80)
- Hugh Carey (p. 82)
- Bill Clinton (p. 82)
- James Micheal Curley (p. 84)
- Richard Daley (p. 84)
- James Farley (p. 85)
- Edward Kennedy (p. 86)
- Jean Kennedy Smith (p. 87)
- JFK-Our Jack (p. 88)
- Robert Kennedy (p. 98)
- Peter King (p. 99)
- Eugene McCarthy (p. 100)
- George Mitchell (p. 100)
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan (p. 102)
- Bruce Morrison (p. 102)
- Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neil (p. 103)
- Ronald Reagan (p. 104)
- Al Smith (p. 105)
- Song and Dance (p. 108)
- The Paddy Clancy Call (p. 110)
- The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem (p. 113)
- George M. Cohan (p. 114)
- Bing Crosby (p. 114)
- The Dorsey Brothers (p. 115)
- Micheal Flatley (p. 117)
- Gene Kelly (p. 118)
- Francis O'Neill (p. 119)
- Sport (p. 120)
- Maureen Connolly (p. 122)
- James "Gentleman Jim" Corbett (p. 122)
- Jack Dempsey (p. 123)
- Frank Leahy (p. 124)
- Connie Mack (p. 125)
- John McEnroe (p. 125)
- Mark McGwire (p. 126)
- Mark O'Meara (p. 127)
- Nolan Ryan (p. 127)
- John L. Sullivan (p. 128)
- Gene Tunney (p. 129)
- Stage and Screen (p. 130)
- James Cagney (p. 132)
- Walt Disney (p. 133)
- John Ford-The Quiet Man (p. 135)
- Jackie Gleason (p. 138)
- Helen Hayes (p. 139)
- Anjelica Huston (p. 140)
- John Huston (p. 141)
- Grace Kelly (p. 142)
- Maureen O'Hara (p. 143)
- Gregory Peck (p. 144)
- Spencer Tracy (p. 145)
- John Wayne (p. 145)
- My Wild Irish Mother (p. 147)
- The Services (p. 154)
- James Brady (p. 156)
- Reverend Francis Duffy (p. 156)
- William "Wild Bill" Donovan (p. 157)
- Steven McDonald (p. 158)
- Audie Murphy (p. 158)
- The Sullivan Brothers (p. 160)
- Writers and Media (p. 162)
- Nellie Bly (p. 164)
- Jimmy Breslin (p. 166)
- Thomas Cahill (p. 166)
- Rachel Carson (p. 167)
- Maureen Dowd (p. 169)
- Finley Peter Dunne (p. 169)
- Jim Dwyer (p. 170)
- James T. Farrell (p. 171)
- William Faulkner (p. 172)
- F. Scott Fitzgerald (p. 173)
- Thomas Flanagan (p. 174)
- Doris Kearns Goodwin (p. 175)
- Pete Hamill (p. 176)
- Mary Higgins Clark (p. 177)
- William Kennedy (p. 177)
- Dorothy Kilgallen (p. 178)
- Frank McCourt (p. 180)
- Alice McDermott (p. 182)
- Eileen McNamara (p. 183)
- Margaret Mitchell (p. 184)
- John Montague (p. 185)
- Flannery O'Connor (p. 186)
- John O'Hara (p. 187)
- Eugene O'Neill (p. 188)
- Anna Quindlen (p. 188)
- Peter Quinn (p. 189)
- John Steinbeck-The Voice of the Dispossessed (p. 190)
- Ed Sullivan (p. 193)
- A Final Word: 1900 and 2000 (p. 195)