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September, 2007
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The Irish
Peopling Indiana

By William W. Giffin
(Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society Press, 2006. Pp. ix, 127. Maps, illustrations, notes, select bibliography, index. Paperbound, $13.95.)

When you think of Irish America, Indiana is not the first place that comes to mind. The vast majority of Irish immigrants chose to settle in the urban centers of the industrial Northeast and Midwest, bypassing largely rural Indiana for Chicago, St. Louis, Detroit, and St. Paul. William Giffin's book, an updated edition of the essay he wrote for Peopling Indiana: The Ethnic Experience (1996), is an informative history of those Irish who did choose the Hoosier state as their home. . . .
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