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Irish Arizona, AZ (IMG) (Images of America) |  | Author: Kathleen Shappee Woo Janice Ryan Bryson
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Category: Book
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Pages: 128
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Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 6.4 x 0.5
ISBN: 0738556475
Dewey Decimal Number: 979
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The Irish greatly contributed to the creation of the territory and state of Arizona due to their enterprising personalities and persistence in a difficult environment. The first documented Irishman in Arizona was Hugo OConor, who established the Presidio of Tucson for the Spanish government in 1775. Sheriff Bucky ONeal of Yavapai County and the Brophy and Riordan families left their mark on Arizonas landscape as well as the Irish-born Sisters of Mercy, who established St. Josephs Hospital in Phoenix. This photographic history identifies famous and lesser-known Arizona settlers who were ranchers, merchants, miners, lawmen, explorers, soldiers, and healers. Irish Arizona offers a unique perspective on an ethnic group not typically associated with the American Southwest.
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How the Irish saved Arizona April 19, 2009
Byrne Hourihane (Phoenix, Az. USA.)
The first documented foray of an Irish citizen into Arizona took place in 1775. For those keeping score, Hugo O'Conor's establishment of the Presidio of Tucson pre-dated the American Declaration of Independence. The Red Captain, as O'Conor was called for his flaming locks, was in able service to the crown of Spain at the time, and protection of Spain's Southwest territory against Apaches and Comanches was his goal.
El Capitan Colorado's placement is therefore first in Irish Arizona, The Images of America, is a part-text, part pictorial chronology detailing westward migration of Irish to Arizona. Released in 2008 and co-authored by two Arizona-based members of the Irish Arizona Project, Janice Ryan Bryson and Kathleen Shappee Wood, Irish Arizona was produced in partnership with the Arizona Historical Foundation, located at Arizona State University's Hayden Library.
Many of the Irish immigrants who first set foot in America during the Emerald Isle's mass population exodus of the 1860s--and beyond--arrived in the East and Midwest-- and stayed put. They formed the backbones of cities like Chicago, New York and Boston. They joined police forces, became lawyers, teachers and politicians. However, not a few of them followed a different path in America. Impressed into military service for the Federals during the Civil War, many Irish never returned to the East of Midwest after war's end. Others heard the siren call of gold or free land in the West. One or two of them were under indictment for alleged misdeeds--and thought it prudent to lose themselves in the West. Many wanted nothing more than to see the wide open spaces and purple mountains majesty. The characters to line the pages of Irish Arizona, as it were.
As in every other state in the Union, the Irish immigrants left they left their mark on Arizona, quickly finding their niche. Lawman Bucky O'Neill rode with Teddy Roosevelt; you might've seen a statue of himself in Prescott in front of a courthouse surrounded by box elder trees O'Neill cajoled the Yavapai County Board of Supervisors into buying and planting.
Does the surname Brophy ring a bell? Nellie Cashman's also in the book. She's as notable an angel of mercy who ever graced Arizona's territorial days. St Joseph's Hospital in Phoenix--built by Irish Catholic nuns. Shamrock Dairy--the name is no coincidence. The Riordon family. The Mahoney's. Mickey Free. More than we should detail, other than to offer that the one hundred twenty six page of pictures and clipped biographical information is a great study for amateur historians.
Co-author and fifth-generation Arizonan, Janice Ryan Bryson descends from a pioneer Arizona family who found their way to Irish Arizona's book cover. Kathleen Shappee Wood was a tireless student of genealogical studies and all things-Irish. Sadly, her pictorial charmer must stand as a bequeathal to Arizona's Irish community. Kathy Wood passed away in early 2009.
Irish Arizona is brief yet amply detailed to give readers a sense of the Irish and their place in Arizona, and the taming the West. Add this one to your Irish-Arizona book collection by purchasing it at the Irish Cultural Center in Phoenix. Or do as many others do--hop on the Internet and buy it from a vendor like, say, Amazon.com.
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