Since Irish immigrants began settling in New Jersey during the seventeenth century, they have made a sizable impact on the state's history and development. As the budding colony struggled to establish an identity for itself in the New World, Irish men and women were forced to grapple with issues of their own: What did it mean to be Irish American, and what role would "Irishness" play in the creation of an American identity? In this thought-provoking and richly illustrated history, Dermot Quinn calls upon a remarkable treasury of photographs and newspaper clippings that uncover the story of...

Presented here with a new introduction by Dermot Quinn, The Age ofthe Gods continues the popular Works of Christopher Dawson series.Among other topics, the book sketches the glacial age and the beginningsof human life, the Paleolithic and Neolithic cultures and the riseof the peasant culture in Europe, the development of Sumerian culture, the archaic culture of Egypt, the megalithic culture in Western Europe, the age of empire in the Near East, the Bronze Age in Central Europe, theformation of the Indo-European peoples, the Mycenaean culture ofGreece, and the beginnings of the Iron Age in...

1850 to 1900 was a period that saw English Catholics emerging from a long period of social obscurity, confident that a "Second Spring" would bring them to a position of moral authority and influence in Victorian England. here, the author examines that confidence and finds it misplaced.