The St. Louis Irish: An Unmatched Celtic Community

by Faherty, William Barnaby

• ISBN13: 9781883982409
• ISBN10: 1883982405
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-03-01
• Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr

Summary

A French-founded frontier village that transformed into a booming nineteenth-century industrial mecca dominated by Germans, the city of St. Louis nonetheless resounds from the influence of Irish immigrants. Both the history and the maps of the city are dotted with the enduring legacies of familiar celts -- John Mullanphy, John O'Fallon, Cardinal John J. Glennon -- but the true marks of the Irish in St. Louis were made by the common immigrants -- those who fled their homeland to settle in the Kerry Patch on St. Louis's near north side -- and their battle to maintain cultural, ethnographic, and religious roots.

Popular local historian William Barnaby Faherty, S.J., offers readers a look into the history and effects of the Irish immigration to St. Louis. The author can now be placed within a rich Irish heritage in the world of publishing: Joseph Charless, editor of the first newspaper west of the Mississippi, the Missouri Gazette; William Marion Reedy, editor of the Mirror and nineteenth-century literary mogul; Joseph McCullagh, editor of the Globe-Democrat in t

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Preface	ix
Acknowledgments	xiii
Ancestral Areas of Pre-Civil War Immigrants to the St. Louis Region	xiv
Two Centuries of Irish Chronology (1798--1998)	xv
Creating a French Colonial Community	1	(6)
Gauls Welcome Gaels	7	(4)
The ``Chief Irish Settlement in the U.S.''	11	(6)
Irish Business After the War of 1812	17	(8)
Three Scintillating Celts	25	(6)
Irish Help Irish-And Others	31	(10)
Celts Teach, Learn, and Care	41	(12)
Expanding Neighborhoods Welcome a Windfall	53	(8)
Bigotry and Blunders Break the Bond	61	(8)
The Camp Jackson ``Affair'': Blessing or Bane?	69	(8)
St. Louis Irish in Blue and Gray	77	(8)
Reunited St. Louis Irish	85	(6)
Irish Carry On in a Changed Community	91	(4)
Women of Distinction in Post-Civil War St. Louis	95	(6)
And Still They Came!	101	(8)
Irish Parishes, Organizations, and Colleges	109	(8)
The City's Most Popular Irishman?	117	(8)
Twilight of the Lion	125	(4)
New Irish Names Surface	129	(6)
St. Louis Irish Writers	135	(8)
An Amasser of Money and a Martyr for Justice	143	(10)
World's Fair and World War	153	(10)
The St. Louis Irish in a Melting Pot	163	(4)
Irish St. Louisans on the Political Scene in Washington	167	(6)
Noted Irish Clerical Personalities (1920-1940)	173	(6)
St. Louis Irish in Education	179	(8)
St. Louis Irish in Labor Leadership	187	(6)
Irish Clergy and a German-American Archbishop	193	(6)
St. Louis Irish in Sports	199	(6)
St. Louis Irish and the Black Community	205	(6)
Moving into the Sixties	211	(6)
The Tentative Seventies	217	(8)
A Two-Parade City	225	(8)
Epilogue	233	(4)
Endnotes	237	(12)
Index	249	(18)
Photo Credits	267	(2)
About the Author	269