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He is credited with leading efforts to revive and preserve Irish culture and language in the United States and he was named to the list of the 100 greatest Irish-Americans of the century by Irish America magazine. [1] [2] The Irish writer and former editor of The Irish Press Tim Pat Coogan praised McKiernan as "the father of Irish studies." [3]
Irish Studies is an interdisciplinary field of research devoted to the study of Ireland, History of Ireland. Geography of Ireland, Culture of Ireland, Literature of Ireland, Art of Ireland, Languages of Ireland, Politics of the Republic of Ireland, Politics of Northern Ireland and Irish people in Ireland and elsewhere.
Ireland and Irish America: Culture, Class, and Transatlantic Migration.Field Day Publications. 2008. ISBN 978-0-946755-39-4.; Kerby A. Miller, ed. (2003). Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan: Letters and Memoirs from Colonial and Revolutionary America, 1675-1815.
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These holdings consist of books, manuscripts, music scores, recordings, photographs, maps, journals, oral histories, and pamphlets connected to Ireland and the Irish-American experience. [1] [2] The library's holdings contain over 300,000 books and 17 million rare manuscripts and artifacts. It is the largest collection of Irish rare books and ...
The American Irish Historical Society (AIHS) is a historical society devoted to Irish American history that was founded in Boston in the late 19th century. Non-partisan and non-sectarian since its inception in 1897, [1] it maintains the most complete private collection of Irish and Irish-American literature and history in the United States, [2] and it publishes a journal entitled The Recorder. [3]
Journey of Hope: The Story of Irish Immigration to America. Chronicle Books. ISBN 978-0811827836. Major source of primary documents. Miller, Kerby (1988). Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195051872. Highly influential study. Porter, Lorle.
Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America is a book by American politician and author James "Jim" Webb.It describes the history of the Scots-Irish ethnic group, summarising their Scottish roots and time in Ulster and the Plantation of Ulster before entering a more elaborate narrative of their time in the United States of America.