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Research Article| December 01 2018 Canal Diggers, Church Builders: Dispelling Stereotypes of the Irish on the Illinois & Michigan Canal Corridor Eileen M. McMahon Eileen M. McMahon Dr. Eileen McMahon is Professor of History at Lewis University specializing in Irish American history. She is the author of “What Parish Are You From?” The Chicago Irish Community and Race Relations, 1916–1970 (1995); “Illinois,” in An Encyclopedia of the Irish in America (1999); “Irish Women in the American Civil War,” in Arthur H. Mitchell, ed., Fighting Irish in the American Civil War and the Invasion of Mexico (2017), and with Theodore J. Karamanski. Chicago’s Civil War: A History in Documents (2014). Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society (1998-) (2018) 111 (4): 43–81. https://doi.org/10.5406/jillistathistsoc.111.4.0043 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Eileen M. McMahon; Canal Diggers, Church Builders: Dispelling Stereotypes of the Irish on the Illinois & Michigan Canal Corridor. Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society (1998-) 1 January 2018; 111 (4): 43–81. doi: https://doi.org/10.5406/jillistathistsoc.111.4.0043 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveUniversity of Illinois PressJournal of the Illinois State Historical Society (1998-) Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright 2019 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois2019 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.
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