Review: Mining Irish-American Lives: Western Communities from 1849 to 1920, by Alan J. M. Noonan

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Book Review| May 01 2023 Review: Mining Irish-American Lives: Western Communities from 1849 to 1920, by Alan J. M. Noonan Mining Irish-American Lives: Western Communities from 1849 to 1920. By Alan J. M. Noonan. (Louisville, University Press of Colorado, 2022. 378 pp.) David Brundage David Brundage University of California, Santa Cruz Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (2023) 92 (2): 305–306. https://doi.org/10.1525/phr.2023.92.2.305 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation David Brundage; Review: Mining Irish-American Lives: Western Communities from 1849 to 1920, by Alan J. M. Noonan. Pacific Historical Review 1 May 2023; 92 (2): 305–306. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/phr.2023.92.2.305 Download citation file: Ris (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 ContentPacific Historical Review Search Scholars have long recognized that the history of the Irish in New England, New York, Philadelphia, or Chicago cannot simply “stand in” for that of Irish immigrants and Irish Americans in the nation as a whole; and David T. Gleeson and David M. Emmons have provided us with rich overviews of the Irish in, respectively, the South and the West. While building on Emmons’s work, Alan J. M. Noonan provides an intensive focus on a specific occupational group (miners) and sensitively explores the interaction of occupational and ethnic identities in a range of locales and time periods, from the California Gold Rush to Montana in the era of the First World War. In so doing, he has fashioned a complex and persuasive analysis, built on a truly remarkable array of sources, that will be welcomed by historians of Irish migration, western community building, and the American mining industry. Noonan’s first... You do not currently have access to this content.