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Mr. Dooley and the Chicago Irish : an anthology
Title
Mr. Dooley and the Chicago Irish : an anthology / edited with introds. by Charles Fanning.
ISBN
0405093349
9780405093340
Publication
New York : Arno Press, 1976.
Physical Description
xxii, 477 pages : 2 maps ; 26 cm.
Local Notes
BEIN Za D9224 C976M: From the library of Philip K. Allen. Accompanied by: Publisher's promotional material for 1987 edition ([4] pages).
Other formats
Also issued online.
Online version: Dunne, Finley Peter, 1867-1936. Mr. Dooley and the Chicago Irish. New York : Arno Press, 1976
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 10, 2022
Series
The Irish-Americans
Contents
Chapter 1: The Past: Ireland, Emigration, Early Bridgeport
Christmas in Ireland
The necessity of modesty among the rich: a tale of the famine
The wanderers
Gold-seeking: illusions about America
Irish county rivalries and employment in Chicago
The Illinois and Michigan canal
A canal-side championship fight
Education in Ireland and Chicago
Bridgeport in the Civil War
The blue and the gray
Coxey's army and the little priest
The Chicago fire
A ball at Finucane's Hall, 1872
The quick and the dead: a ghost story
Chapter 2: Daily Life in Bridgeport in the Nineties
A parish fair at St. Honoria's
"The doomed markey"
Heresy at a church fair
A parochial school graduation
Keeping Lent
The temperance saloon
Not keeping Lent
A genealogy lecture
A benefit raffle
The Dooley family reunion
New Year's resolutions
Football on the road
Hennessy umpires a baseball game
The Corbett-Mitchell fight of 1894
A fishing trip
Ice skating and old age
Old age and bicycling
The game of golf in Chicago
Love affairs in Ireland and Bridgeport
The courtship of Danny Duggan
In the spring, a young man's fancy
Felix's lost chord
An economical romance
A winter night
The optimist
Shaughnessy
Their excellencies, the police
Controlling and inciting riots
The stealing of Hogan's goat
Fire chief Swenie in Bridgeport
Images of policemen vs firemen
The popularity of firemen
Chapter 3: Assimilation and Dissolving Community
Life in the city
The decadence of Greece and the tenth precinct
A polacker on the red bridge
The soft spot in a landlord's hard heart
Paternal duty and rackrenting landlord Ahearn
An immigrant millionaire denies his brother
Changing attitudes toward the press
Naming the Hogan baby
Molly Donahue and the divided skirt
Molly tries to vote
The piano in the parlor
The new woman
The woman's Bible
Molly's home vaudeville show
The Dennehy boy back from Notre Dame
College football and dissension in Bridgeport
The idle apprentice
On criminals: Petey Scanlan
Chapter 4: Bridgeport as a Culture of Poverty
Poverty and pride in the Callaghan family
A blacklisted worker refuses relief
The Grady girl rushing the can
On charity: a lost child
Christmas charity on the road
Mrs. Mulligan and the Illinois central railroad
Only the poor marry
The beef trust and the Connock man's children
The Pullam strike: lemons and liberty
the Pullman strike: the tragedy of the agitator
The Pullman strike: what does he care?
Organized charity and the Galway woman
A bank failure at Christmas time
Charity and education: an immigrant shot for stealing coal
Clancy the infidel, saved by father Kelly
After the Bradley-Martin ball
Chapter 5: Chicago Politics: The View from Archey Road
Momories of the O'Reilly-Schultze election
A model campaign for Alderman
The role of women in Bridgeport politics
An old style election day in the ward
A Republican primary in Finucane's Hall
The advantages of being an Alderman
The dance of legislation through the council
Political appointments by the spoils system
Hanging Alderman: how boodle is dispensed
The wave of reform hits Bridgeport
A brand from the burning: a political biography
A victim of the game of politics
The council ruins a decent man
The career of Alderman John Powers
The campaign of 1897: Dooley for mayor
The campaign of 1897: the crow in the tree
The campaign of 1897: post-election analysis
The campaign of 1897: an Alderman's life
Chapter 6: Cathleen in Houlihan in Chicago: Irish-American Nationalism
The Fenian invasion of Canada
The Venezuela boundary and the Irish republic
The dynamite campaign in the Clan na Gael
An Irish-German alliance in Bridgeport
The flight of the wild geese
Hypocritical journalism: jingoes and nationalists
The irishman abroad
Gladstone and Parnell
The British cabinet crisis of 1895
The tynan plot
The annual freedom picnic
St. Patrick's day
Boyne water and bad blood
A new verdict in the Cronin murder case
The decline of national feeling
Chapter 7: Mr. Dooley's Philosophy
Suicide and self-delusion
Progress in the Victorian era
Freedom and the Fourth of July
The dedication of the Logan statue
Expert testimony at the Luetgert trial
Reading and believing
Christmas gifts
Christmas Eve: the constancy of poverty
Dooley's New Year greeting
Mr. Dooley says goodbye: "An' what's it come to?"
Mr. Dooley's farewell to the Chicago River.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Wit and Humor.
humor.
Humor.
Fiction.
Humor.
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United States New York (State) New York.
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