“Gleeson’s book is a great contribution toward understanding the complicated nature of the southern Irish in American history.” — CHOICE
“Gleeson makes a convincing case that the southern Irish represent an important untold story of the Irish in America.” — American Historical Review
“Thoroughly researched and clearly and often engagingly written, this is an important book that deserves serious attention.” — Journal of American History
“Gleeson’s extensive research and the clarity of his writing make this book an invaluable contribution to the historical literature on the nineteenth-century South.” — Journal of Southern History
“Gleeson’s study of Irish immigrants in the eleven states of the lower and upper South is a most welcome first of its kind.” — South Carolina Historical Magazine
“Deeply researched. . . . [Gleeson] provides a fascinating and fresh insight into the role of the Southern Irish in the post-Civil War years and Reconstruction.” — Civil War Book Review
“[Gleeson] informs our understanding of the Irish in all parts of America, and . . . deserves praise and thanks for telling us something of those lives.” — Journal of American Ethnic History
“An accessible and wide-ranging survey of Irish assimilation in the South. . . . Gleeson’s work both expands the story of Irish Americans and delightfully complicates visions of the economic, social, religious and political experience of 'plain folk' in the antebellum South.” — Georgia Historical Quarterly
“Historians have long recognized the need for a comprehensive study of Irish Americans living in the 19th-century South. David T. Gleeson fills the critical gap with this insightful and impressively-researched work. . . written in clear prose and accentuated with useful and revealing statistics. . . . Readers will learn much from this important work.” — Virginia Quarterly Review
“[An] insightful and impressively-researched work. . . . Written in clear prose and accentuated with useful and revealing statistics.” — Virginia Quarterly Review
