Clan Hannon - Ó hAnnáin Genealogy

7 Ó hAnnáin Resettlements around the World

The following online and print resources are geared to the interests and geographic backgrounds of our members who have made entries in the Clan Hannon Guestbook as of this writing. Books and websites about other geographic locations will be added continually as our membership grows. Original Ó hAnnáin records (Irish documents, marriages, births, newspaper articles etc) will be featured as well in later sections.

From the sources below, we can often get a glimpse of our ancestor’s early lives in their new adopted country and gain insight into their trials, joys and sorrows. For example, we might learn that our ancestors enjoyed the comfort of living in an Irish--speaking neighborhood of their resettlement town in Australia, the UK or the US.

If the books listed are not available at your local or university library, most libraries, no matter how small, have an interlibrary loan service that will find the book for you “somewhere in the world”.

UNITED STATES

One of the most comprehensive resources for Irish American and Irish Canadian resettlement information is The Irish in North America : A Regional Bibliography by Seamus P. Metress and Donna M. Hardy-Johnston. Toronto : P.D. Meany Publishers, c1999. Many of the following print resources have been gleaned from the book. Often specific community members are mentioned by name in these articles or books. If the following are not available at your local public or university library, you might try to interlibrary loan the books or a photocopy of the articles.

See also From Paddy to Studs : Irish-American communities in the turn of the century era, 1880 to 1920/ Meagher, Timothy J. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1986. Discusses Irish settlements in Chicago, St Louis, Lowell and Worcester, MA, San Francisco and Philadeplphia.

Most Irish Towns Index in the US from Epodunk
http://www.epodunk.com/top10/irish/

Irish in the Midwest

CHICAGO

History of the Irish in Chicago from Northern Illinois University
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/iht629912.html

About Chicago Gaelic Park
http://www.cgp-chicago.org/Cultural/history.htm

Irish in Chicago from Irish Abroad
http://www.irishabroad.com/irishworld/Chicago/

Irish in Chicago rootsweb mailing list
http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Ethnic-Irish/IRISH-IN-CHICAGO.html

BOOKS: Irish Chicago / John Gerard McLaughlin, 2002 127 p. : ill. : historical photos Chicago, Ill. : Arcadia Books.

At the crossroads : Old Saint Patrick's and the Chicago Irish / Ellen Skerrett, 1997. 171 p. Chicago : Wild Onion Books.

The Chicago Irish Experience: A Reporter in Sweet Chicago. Contemporary Books, Chicago, 1983.

O’Dwyer, G.C. “Irish Colonization in Illinois”, Catholic Historical Review, 1920, vol. 3:73-76.

Onahan, W. J., “Irish Settlements in Illinois”, Catholic World, 1881, 33: 157-162.

Piper, R.M. The Irish in Chicago, The University of Chicago, 1936.

INDIANA

The Catholic Church in Northern Indiana, 1830-1857. Catholic Historical Review, 25: 135-145.

“Irish” by W. W. Giffin (chapter) : In book Peopling Indiana: the Ethnic Experience by RM Taylor and C.A. McBirney, eds. Indiana Historical Society, 1996, p. 244. About the Irish influx from 1860-1920.

Indiana's Irish history /Rick Maultra, 1989 [ Videorecording ]: (60 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
Indianapolis : Cable TV 16, Highlights the Irish immigrants' place in Indiana history and their cultural influences.

New England

MASSACHUSETTS

The Search for Missing Friends : Irish immigrant advertisements placed in the Boston Pilot /Ruth-Ann Mellish Harris; Donald M Jacobs; B Emer O'Keeffe, 1989- Boston : New England Historic Genealogical Society.

The Irish in New England /O'Connor, Thomas H., 1922-Boston : New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1985.

The pre-revolutionary Irish in Massachusetts, 1620-1775 /George Francis Donovan, 1932. [Menasha, Wis. : George Banta Pub. Co.]

Lowell/Billerica (Massachusetts):

The Irish came to Lowell : A journalists' observations of 19th century Irish in Lowell, Massachusetts. Leo Panas; Anne V Quinn, 1985

The paddy camps : the Irish of Lowell, 1821-61 /Mitchell, Brian Christopher, 1953- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 1988.

The Irish Catholic genesis of Lowell /George Francis O'Dwyer, 1981, 1920 [Lowell, MA : Lowell Museum Corp.]

The early Irish Catholic schools of Lowell, Massachusetts, 1835-1852/ Walsh, Louis Sebastian, bp., 1858-1924.Publication: Boston : T. A. Whalen, 1901.

From Erin to the Acre : a photo history of Lowell's early Irish /McKean, David Duncan. [Lowell, Mass. : N.p.], 1998.

Anon., “Irish Girls in Lowell” Boston Pilot, 16: 7. (1851)

MAINE

Liberty, Maine
Waldo County gen web http://www.rootsweb.com/~mewaldo/families.htm

Liberty, Maine genealogy resources from Epodunk:
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genealogyInfo.php?locIndex=2193

Portland, Maine: The West Galway migration.

Thinking of Monday: the Irish Speakers of Portland, Maine/K. E. Nilsen,, in Éire/Ireland 25 (1991) 6-19.

Baker, M.J., “The Irish in Lewiston, Maine: A Search for Security on the Urban Frontier”, Maine History Quarterly, 13:pp. 3-25.

Grimes, S. and M. Connolly. “The Migration Link between Cois Fharraige and Portland, Maine, 1880s to 1920s.
Irish Geography, Vol. 22(1): pp.22-30.

Hard times, hard men : Maine and the Irish, 1830-1860 / Mundy, James H. Scarborough, Me. : Harp Publications, 1990.

The Irish longshoremen of Portland, Maine, 1880-1923 /Connolly, Michael Coleman.Publication: 1988 [Thesis/dissertation]

The Western Cemetery project : a project of 125 years of service to the PortlandIrish-American community / [Portland, Me. : The Division], 2001.

Maine--Extracts from the early church records of that portion of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, now the State of Maine.
O'Brien, Michael Joseph, 1870-1960.Publication: [Boston] 1913.

See also Early Settlers article in New Hampshire section.

Maine Irish Heritage Center:
http://www.maineirish.com/index.html

Irish, Maine, Canadian Genealogy & History links
http://www.maineirish.com/links.html

CONNECTICUT

Frank A. Stone, The Irish in Their Homeland, (chapter) in the book America, in Connecticut. Storrs, CT: 1975.

“The Connecticut Irish in the Revolution, Numerous Celt Names Listed in the Muster Rolls”, Journal of the American Irish Historical Society , 1923, 22:pp. 196-214.

“The Irish in New London, Connecticut in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries”, Journal of the American Irish Historical Society, 1923, 22: 183-191.

“Irish Settlers in Connecticut in the 17th and 18th Century, “ Journal of the American Irish Historical Society, 1925, 24:125-141.

Genealogical Resources at the Connecticut State Library
http://www.cslib.org/irish.htm

Irish family: History and Genealogy Unit, Special Genealogical File, Connecticut State Library.
Year: 1823-1979. Note(s): May include newspaper clippings and other published materials, Bible records, correspondence, typescripts, manuscripts and photocopies.

Connecticut Irish-American Historical Society
http://www.southernct.edu/departments/ehc/connecticut_irish.htm

Brief History of the Irish in Connecticut
http://www.ctheritage.org/encyclopedia/ct1818_1865/irish.htm

NEW HAMPSHIRE

Anon., 1922. “Early Irish Settlers in Maine and New Hampshire”, Sprague’s Journal of Maine History 10: 29-31.

Brennan, J. F. “The Irish Pioneers and Founders of Peterborough, New Hampshire”, Journal of the American Irish Historical Society, 1899, 2: 145-151.

____, “The Irish Settlers of New Hampshire”, Journal of the American Irish Historical Society, 1910, 9:247-257.

Copley, W., “Scotch-Irish Settlers in New Hampshire, 1719-1776”, Historical New Hampshire, 1995,v. 50: 213-228.

Hackler, P. “Nativism, Liquor and Riots: Manchester Politics, 1858-59. “ Historical New Hampshire, 1991, v. 46 (2): 67-91.

Linehan, J.C., “Early New Hampshire Irish”, Journal of the American Irish Historical Society, 1900, 3: pp. 183-88.

NEW YORK and NEW YORK CITY

Irish immigrants in New York City, 1945-1995/ Linda Dowling Almeida, 2001. Bloomington : Indiana University Press.
Electronic book at : http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=66568.
Immigration to New York / William Pencak; Selma Cantor Berrol; Randall M Miller, 1991. {Philadelphia : London : Balch Institute Press ; Associated University Presses}

The New York Irish /Ronald H Bayor; Timothy J Meagher, 1996. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press.

Albany

Their Own Kind: Family and Community life in Albany, New York, 1850-1915/ Harrigan, M.C. Harvard University Press, 1975.

Early Irish in old Albany, N.Y., by Franklin M Danaher, 1903, 44 p. [Boston: The American-Irish historical society]

Hard days are gone: the Irish in the Capital Region / Steve Dunn; Tommy Makem, 1999. (VHS) [Schenectady, N.Y.] : WMHT Educational Telecommunications.

The Irish aristocracy of Albany, 1798-1878 /William E Rowley, 1971. [Cooperstown, N.Y. New York Historical Association]

Peoples and communities of the Upper Hudson: an ethnic history of Albany, Schenectady and Troy / Capital District Humanities Program.; Russell Sage College.; New York State Museum, 1980.
(13 sound cassettes) Albany, NY : Capital District Humanities Program.

Buffalo

The Irish family in Buffalo, New York, 1855-1875; a socio-historical analysis. Mary Catherine Mattis, 1975.
Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.

Ethnicity and social structure : Irish, Germans, and native-born of Buffalo, N.Y., 1850-1860/
Laurence Admiral Glasco, 1973. English { Thesis}

NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA

Lackawanna County: County seat of Scranton is sister city to Ballina, County Mayo.

Irish in vicinity of Scranton Mailing List
http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=wsullivw

Genealogical Research Society of Northeastern PA
http://www.cfrobbins.com/grsnp/

Lackawanna County Genweb (Scranton)
http://www.rootsweb.com/~palackaw/index.html

Luzerne County Historical Society
http://www.luzernecountyhistory.com/mainframe.htm

Luzerne County Genweb
http://www.rootsweb.com/~paluzern/

Pittston, Luzerne County, Genealogy links
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~cranford/luzernep.html

Coal Mining websites:
Luzerne County and surrounding region. See “links” for more anthracite related websites.
http://www.coalregion.com/

BOOKS

Aurand, H. W. “The Anthracite Strike of 1887-1888”, Pennsylvania History 35: 172-173.

Gibbons, P.E. The Miners of Scranton, Pennsylvania” Harpers New Monthly Magazine, 1877, 15: 916-927.

SOUTHERN USA

The South
Cobb, I. S.,/ The Lost Irish Tribes in the South, Friends of Irish Freedom, Washington DC, 1919.

Connolly, Thomas. An Irishman in Dixie: Thomas Connolly’s Diary of the Fall of the Confederacy. Columbia, SC: South Carolina University Press, 1988.

The Irish in South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, and Tennessee/ Patrick Walsh, 1900.

ALABAMA Calametti, J. A., Jr./The Catholic Church in Mobile during Reconstruction 1865-1877. University of South Alabama.
The Irish Catholic experience in Birmingham, Alabama, 1871-1921 /Blalock, Kay J. 1989

GEORGIA Chalker, F. “Irish Catholics in the Building of the Ocmulgee and Flint Railroad” Georgia Historical Quarterly, 54: pp. 507-516.

LOUISIANA The Irish in New Orleans, 1800-1860, Niehaus, Earl F. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1965
New Orleans Irish : famine exiles / John Finn, 1997, 683 p. [Luling, La. : Holy Family Church]

The Western USA

OREGON

We Irish in Oregon : a historical account of the Irish in Oregon from the pioneer times to the present day /
David Ó Longaigh, 1998. {Portland, Or. : All-Ireland Cultural Society of Oregon}

Shamrocks and shepherds : the Irish of Morrow County /John F Kilkenny, 1969. {Portland, Or. :Oregon Historical Society}

All-Ireland Cultural Society of Oregon website
http://hometown.aol.com/aicsoregon/myhomepage/club.html

ALABAMA	Calametti, J. A., Jr./The Catholic Church in Mobile during Reconstruction 1865-1877. University of South Alabama. The Irish Catholic experience in Birmingham, Alabama, 1871-1921 /Blalock, Kay J. 1989
GEORGIA	Chalker, F. “Irish Catholics in the Building of the Ocmulgee and Flint Railroad” Georgia Historical Quarterly, 54: pp. 507-516.
LOUISIANA	The Irish in New Orleans, 1800-1860, Niehaus, Earl F. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1965 New Orleans Irish : famine exiles / John Finn, 1997, 683 p. [Luling, La. : Holy Family Church]