Table of Contents

• Introduction  by Timothy J. O’Keefe 

Irish Identity in Literature and the Popular Press 

• A Literature of Good Fortunes by Matthew L. Jockers 

• Irish Catholic Identity and California Public Life:

• Peter Yorke versus C.K. McClatchy 1890-1916 by Stephen M. Avella 

• Vignette: The Irish Literary and Historical Society of San Francisco by Donald Jordan 

Part Two

Ethnicity and Troubled Ethnic Relations 

• California Clash: Irish and Chinese Labor in San Francisco, 1850-1870 by Daniel J. Meissner 

• St. Peter’s Parish in San Francisco: The Rise and Eclipse of an Irish Parish 1913-1964 by Jeffrey M. Burns 

• Vignette: Michael Casey (1860-1937) by Peter Imperial 

• Vignette: Vivian Moore Hallinan (1910-1999) and Vincent Hallinan (1896-1992) by James P. Walsh 

Part Three

Irish American Culture and Acculturation 

• Old Age Pipers and New Age Punters: Irish Traditional Music and Musicians in San Francisco, 1850-2000 by Gearóid Ó'hAllmhuráin 

• Women in Irish Dance in San Francisco, 1900-1935 by Lynn Lubamersky 

• Maggie’s Boarding House: Irish-American Assimilation in San Francisco, 1910-1930 by Daniel P. Walsh 

• Vignette: An Irishman Goes to San Francisco by Michael Corrigan 

Part Four

Education and Educators 

• Pioneers in the Classroom: Irish-American Teachers in San Francisco in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries by Janet Nolan

• Educating Catholic Young Men – “Principally Irish”: Men’s Catholic Colleges in the San Francisco Bay Area by Timothy J. O’Keefe 

• Vignette: Frank Quinn Remembers: Irish Oral History of the Mission District by Cecilia McDonnell 

• Diplomatic Snapshots: The Irish Consul in San Francisco, 1933-1947 by Dermot Keogh

• San José-Silicon Valley and Ireland by Tom McEnery 

• Vignette: San Francisco’s Robert Emmet Monument by Timothy J. O’Keefe  

  Part Six  

  Irish-American Identity: Personal Experience and Historical Evaluation  

  • Fragments of Identity, Lost and Found by Kevin Starr 

  • The Evolution of the Thesis: The Irish Experience in California was different by James P. Walsh   

  • In Memoriam: Donald J. Jordan, Jr. (1945-2003) by Robert Tracy   

  • Essay Contributors 

  • Bibliography – 10 pages