The Catalpa


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source - jamesam@admin.con2.com (Pat Jameson- & Gary Sammartano)

A chara,

 Anybody who's interested in the Catalpa can also find some great material
on it in Terry Golway's 1998 bio of John Devoy, _Irish Rebel_.(St. Martin's
Press)

 This is a fabulous book on the subject of Devoy, Fenianism, and the
diaspora. I heartily recommend it to anyone teaching the history of the
Irish in America. It's a scholarly biography that reads like a screenplay.
If I were teaching a 19th Century American history course, I would use this
biography as a course reading; it reinforces for me the idea that the more I
study Irish history, the more I learn about American history.

 The author is a former college professor at CUNY's College of Staten Island
and a journalist for the New York Observer. Much of his research was done at
the American Irish Historical Society; he's also a member of the New York
Irish History Roundtable, and has presented before both groups. He also
presented before the United Federation of Teachers, which was where I first
met him.

Slan,

Patricia Jameson-Sammartano,
Co-Chair, Irish American Studies Committee
United Federation of Teachers, New York, NY

Gary Sammartano and Patricia Jameson-Sammartano


 
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