The Irish In America: Long Journey Home
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In Theaters : 26 January, 1998
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PBS DOES ANOTHER GREAT DOCUMENTARY
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VOLUME 1: THE GREAT HUNGER
Part one of this acclaimed PBS series explores the earliest roots of the Irish people in the New World. Centering on the crucial event of the Potato Famine, this tape examines the causes of what would become one of the greatest mass migrations in world history. The conditions faced by early arrivals in the United States are examined, including the prejudice that made the end of the remarkable journey so bittersweet for thousands of families in search of a new life. Serious in tone and well documented, this tape is appropriate for use in the college classroom. Enhanced by tender personal remembrances, rare archival images and the rousing music of some of today's most popular singers, this powerful and inspiring epic touches the life of every American!
VOLUME 2: ALL ACROSS AMERICA
At the start, the Irish who survived the Famine found poverty and disease in America, religious bigotry, and a political movement that meant to run them out of the country. But the Irish stuck together; they built their own churches and their own communities. And by the last quarter of the 19th century, as the Irish spread out across the country, Irish-American heroes had begun to emerge. Prospector John Mackay discovered the Big Bonanza, a strike of silver and gold, that made him one of the richest men in the world, overnight. Marcus Daly opened his fabulously successful Anaconda Copper Mine to Irish immigrant workers. And John L. Sullivan, a street kid from Boston with a talent for bare knuckle fighting and two-fisted drinking, made himself a legend when he faced challenger Jack Kilrain in an amazing 75-round bout. Enhanced by tender personal remembrances, rare archival images and the rousing music of some of today's most popular singers, this powerful and inspiring epic touches the life of every American!
VOLUME 3: UP FROM CITY STREETS
This is the story of a golden age for the Irish in America, when Irish immigrants rose to run its great cities -- to rule them -- from the sewers to the skyline. They left their mark everywhere: in theater, sports, music, crime, labor, Wall Street, and Hollywood. One Irish boy, Al Smith, started his career heaving barrels of fish in Manhattan's Lower East Side and ended it in a bid for the American Presidency. Was America ready for a Catholic kid from the city streets to make a home for himself in the White House? Enhanced by tender personal remembrances, rare archival images and the rousing music of some of today's most popular singers, this powerful and inspiring epic touches the life of every American!
VOLUME 4: SUCCESS
This volume chronicles the history of two very different Irish-American families who both reached international celebrity in the 1930s. The Kennedy's were always considered America's royalty especially when patriarch Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., a self-made millionaire, was appointed Ambassador to England. By the time John F. Kennedy became the first Irish-Catholic President of the United States, the days of the potato famine and the stigma of being Irish were long gone. But the senior Kennedy insisted that he and his family be remembered not as Americans of Irish descent, but as American. On the other hand, Eugene O'Neill, one of the world's greatest playwrights, was fiercely Irish and kept his family roots exposed in most of his classic plays. If the Kennedy's basked in the glow of their assimilation as Americans, O'Neill eschewed it, preferring to relive his family's bitter struggle to remain Irish in America. In both cases, they succeeded. |
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