Daley & Halligan Bibliography

Fiction

Michael C. White, In the Garden of Martyrs (St. Martin's Press).
A widely acclaimed novel about the Daley and Halligan case.

Mary Doyle Curran, The Parish and the Hill (New York, 1948)
A novel about the Irish experience in Holyoke.

Non-Fiction

Note: See "Documents and Resources" on this site for most documentary and print sources on the Daley & Halligan trial, itself.  The following bibliography is a list of resources for wider reading on Irish immigration and history, and social and regional history of the early 19th century.

John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of American Nativism, 1860-1925 (New York, 1970)

Noel Ignatiev, How the Irish Became White (New York, 1995)

Kerby Miller, Emmigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America (Oxford, 1988)

David Roediger, Special Sorrows: The Diasporic Imagination of Irish, Polish, and Jewish Immigrants in the United States (2002)

Kevin Kenny, The American Irish: A History (2000)

Irene and Richard Brown, The Hanging of Ephraim Wheeler (2003)

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