Reviewed by David Emmons | Reviews | Journal of American Ethnic History, 27.1

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The Paddy Camps: The Irish of Lowell, 1821–61. By Brian C. Mitchell. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006 (1988). xvii + 247 pp. Maps, illustrations, graphs, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $25.00 (paper).

This is a very welcome new edition of Brian Mitchell's 1988 study of the Irish in antebellum Lowell, Massachusetts. As best I can tell, it is unrevised except for a brief paragraph in the introduction, where Mitchell lists some of the more recent studies of the Irish in America. A case could be made that Mitchell should have incorporated some of that new scholarship into a revised edition of his book, but as president of Bucknell University, he probably had a couple of other things to do. It was a pioneering study but—almost twenty years after its first appearance—it has become almost an exercise in historiography. Despite this, the book has stood up extremely well and still has some important historical lessons to teach.

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