Review of Beyond the American Pale: The Irish in the West, 1845-1910 by David M. Emmons

Authors

William H. Mulligan Jr., Murray State University

Date of this Version

Summer 2011

Document Type

Article

Citation

Great Plains Quarterly 31:3 (Summer 2011).

Comments

Copyright © 2011 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska.

Abstract

David Emmons's book on the Butte Irish (1989) helped begin a scholarly reassessment and investigation of the Irish experience in America, expanding it well beyond East Coast Irish communities and a few others in the Midwest. It had a significant impact on other scholars, myself included. His new book, which deals with the Irish experience in the "West," therefore, has been much anticipated. Beyond the American Pale will not disappoint those who have waited for Emmons's take on the larger picture of the Irish in the "West," although it may not be what many expect.