On Every TideThe Making and Remaking of the Irish World

Sean Connolly

On Every Tide explores not just Irish immigration to Boston and the United States but also to Britain and Canada, Australia and New Zealand, and South Africa and South America. It offers insights and anecdotes on what Irish Catholics had to overcome in the US, and how they overcame their victimized underclass status by leveraging the powers inherent in politics, religion, business, labor and culture. Connolly makes connections between anti-immigrant sentiment, starting with Know-Nothing nativism against the Famine Irish to modern day prejudice against Hispanic immigrants.

Basic Books 528 pages / $35 / 2022