Research Catalog

Title

Mr. Dooley and the Chicago Irish : an anthology / edited with introds. by Charles Fanning.

Author

Dunne, Finley Peter, 1867-1936.

Publication

New York : Arno Press, 1976.

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Details

Description

xxii, 477 pages; 26 cm.

Series Statement

The Irish-Americans

Uniform Title

Irish-Americans

Subject

• Dooley, Mr. (Fictitious character) > Fiction
• Irish Americans > Fiction
• Humorous stories, American
• Dooley, Mr. (Fictitious character)
• Irish Americans
• Chicago (Ill.) > Fiction
• Illinois > Chicago

Genre/Form

• Wit and Humor.
• humor.
• Humor.
• Fiction.
• Humour.

Contents

Chapter 1: The Past: Ireland, Emigration, Early Bridgeport -- Christmas in Ireland -- The necessity of modesty among the rich: a tale of the famine -- The wanderers -- Gold-seeking: illusions about America -- Irish county rivalries and employment in Chicago -- The Illinois and Michigan canal -- A canal-side championship fight -- Education in Ireland and Chicago -- Bridgeport in the Civil War -- The blue and the gray -- Coxey's army and the little priest -- The Chicago fire -- A ball at Finucane's Hall, 1872 -- The quick and the dead: a ghost story -- Chapter 2: Daily Life in Bridgeport in the Nineties -- A parish fair at St. Honoria's -- "The doomed markey" -- Heresy at a church fair -- A parochial school graduation -- Keeping Lent -- The temperance saloon -- Not keeping Lent -- A genealogy lecture -- A benefit raffle -- The Dooley family reunion -- New Year's resolutions -- Football on the road -- Hennessy umpires a baseball game -- The Corbett-Mitchell fight of 1894 -- A fishing trip -- Ice skating and old age -- Old age and bicycling -- The game of golf in Chicago -- Love affairs in Ireland and Bridgeport -- The courtship of Danny Duggan -- In the spring, a young man's fancy -- Felix's lost chord -- An economical romance -- A winter night -- The optimist -- Shaughnessy -- Their excellencies, the police -- Controlling and inciting riots -- The stealing of Hogan's goat -- Fire chief Swenie in Bridgeport -- Images of policemen vs firemen -- The popularity of firemen -- Chapter 3: Assimilation and Dissolving Community -- Life in the city -- The decadence of Greece and the tenth precinct -- A polacker on the red bridge -- The soft spot in a landlord's hard heart -- Paternal duty and rackrenting landlord Ahearn -- An immigrant millionaire denies his brother -- Changing attitudes toward the press -- Naming the Hogan baby -- Molly Donahue and the divided skirt -- Molly tries to vote -- The piano in the parlor -- The new woman -- The woman's Bible -- Molly's home vaudeville show -- The Dennehy boy back from Notre Dame -- College football and dissension in Bridgeport -- The idle apprentice -- On criminals: Petey Scanlan -- Chapter 4: Bridgeport as a Culture of Poverty -- Poverty and pride in the Callaghan family -- A blacklisted worker refuses relief -- The Grady girl rushing the can -- On charity: a lost child -- Christmas charity on the road -- Mrs. Mulligan and the Illinois central railroad -- Only the poor marry -- The beef trust and the Connock man's children -- The Pullam strike: lemons and liberty -- the Pullman strike: the tragedy of the agitator -- The Pullman strike: what does he care? -- Organized charity and the Galway woman -- A bank failure at Christmas time -- Charity and education: an immigrant shot for stealing coal -- Clancy the infidel, saved by father Kelly -- After the Bradley-Martin ball -- Chapter 5: Chicago Politics: The View from Archey Road -- Momories of the O'Reilly-Schultze election -- A model campaign for Alderman -- The role of women in Bridgeport politics -- An old style election day in the ward -- A Republican primary in Finucane's Hall -- The advantages of being an Alderman -- The dance of legislation through the council -- Political appointments by the spoils system -- Hanging Alderman: how boodle is dispensed -- The wave of reform hits Bridgeport -- A brand from the burning: a political biography -- A victim of the game of politics -- The council ruins a decent man -- The career of Alderman John Powers -- The campaign of 1897: Dooley for mayor -- The campaign of 1897: the crow in the tree -- The campaign of 1897: post-election analysis -- The campaign of 1897: an Alderman's life -- Chapter 6: Cathleen in Houlihan in Chicago: Irish-American Nationalism -- The Fenian invasion of Canada -- The Venezuela boundary and the Irish republic -- The dynamite campaign in the Clan na Gael -- An Irish-German alliance in Bridgeport -- The flight of the wild geese -- Hypocritical journalism: jingoes and nationalists -- The irishman abroad -- Gladstone and Parnell -- The British cabinet crisis of 1895 -- The tynan plot -- The annual freedom picnic -- St. Patrick's day -- Boyne water and bad blood -- A new verdict in the Cronin murder case -- The decline of national feeling -- Chapter 7: Mr. Dooley's Philosophy -- Suicide and self-delusion -- Progress in the Victorian era -- Freedom and the Fourth of July -- The dedication of the Logan statue -- Expert testimony at the Luetgert trial -- Reading and believing -- Christmas gifts -- Christmas Eve: the constancy of poverty -- Dooley's New Year greeting -- Mr. Dooley says goodbye: "An' what's it come to?" -- Mr. Dooley's farewell to the Chicago River.

ISBN

• 0405093349
• 9780405093340

LCCN

76006339

OCLC

• ocm02688073
• 2688073
• SCSB-8896415

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library