Download or read book The Shamrock and the Lily written by Mary C. Kelly and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2005 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ireland's tumultuous heritage combined with the promise of cosmopolitan New York to forge a new Irish-American immigrant identity. Between the Great Irish Famine and the creation of the Irish Free State, the New York Irish world preserved as much from the old country as it adopts from the new. The Shamrock and the Lily illuminates a set of remarkable transatlantic connections dominated by the road to Ireland's independence, in an absorbing study of a people driven from a troubled past toward freedom for themselves and for those they left behind.