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Real lace : America's Irish rich
- Title
- Real lace : America's Irish rich / Stephen Birmingham.
- Author
- Birmingham, Stephen.
- Publication
- New York : Harper & Row, ©1973.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | E184.I6 B57 1973 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xiii, 322 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates (1 fold-out) : illustrations; 25 cm
- Subject
- Irish Americans > Biography
- Upper class > United States
- Rich people > United States
- HISTORY > Modern > 20th Century
- HISTORY > Social History
- SOCIAL SCIENCE > Emigration & Immigration
- SOCIAL SCIENCE > Social Classes & Economic Disparity
- Irish Americans
- Manners and customs
- Rich people
- Upper class
- United States > Social life and customs
- United States
- Genre/Form
- collective biographies.
- Biographies.
- Note
- Includes index.
- Contents
- "What happened" -- in the beginning -- "everything but the light bulb" -- "Murray Bay" -- Mr. McDonnell's Gimmick -- the greatest nose count of them all -- the original butter-and-egg man -- the wedding of the century -- "Ma and Pa D." -- the bubble breaks -- the decline of Mr. Fall -- the silver kings -- Mr. Ryan's fortune -- and for my eldest son, one set of pearl studs -- the troubles of one house -- why don't the nice people like us? -- the Dutchess Brady -- "atomic tom" -- the Buckleys of "Great Elm" -- the upward climb -- sons of the priory, daughters of the sacred heart -- royalty -- problems in the back office -- to the bitter end -- aftermath -- "Robert of Roue."
- ISBN
- 0060103361
- 9780060103361
- LCCN
- 73004061
- OCLC
- ocm00677300
- 677300
- SCSB-194187
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library