The Columbia guide to Irish American history

I: A history of Irish Americans from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century

Introduction : the Irish immigrants and ethnics

Irish immigration to colonial America

Irish America from the revolution to the famine

The famine years

The turn of the twentieth century

The twentieth century

The 1960s to the present

II: Issues and themes in Irish American history

Irish American gender and family

Irish Americans in politics

Irish American nationalism

Irish Americans and race

III: Important people, organizations, events, and terms

IV: Chronology of Irish America.