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- Title
Canal Diggers, Church Builders: Dispelling Stereotypes of the Irish on the Illinois & Michigan Canal Corridor.
- Authors
McMahon, Eileen M.
- Abstract
The article examines stereotypes of the Irish immigrant workers on the Illinois & Michigan Canal Corridor, and Irish immigrant agency downstate, in towns of Illinois that dot the prairie. Topics discussed include Irish community formation and the efforts to establish parishes across the Canal Corridor; Catholic Church that is central to Irish immigrant life; and parish served as the focal point of an immigrant experience in a foreign land.
- Subjects
UNITED States; ILLINOIS &; Michigan Canal (Ill.); ILLINOIS; IMMIGRANTS; IRISH Americans; CANALS; STEREOTYPES; SOCIAL psychology
- Publication
Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, 2018, Vol 111, Issue 4, p43
- ISSN
1522-1067
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5406/jillistathistsoc.111.4.0043