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| List of Illustrations and Tables | |
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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Colonial and Early National America | |
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| Overview: The Irish and the Emerging City: Settlement to 1844 | |
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| "Upon a bunch of straw": The Irish in Colonial New York City | |
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| Religion, Ethnicity, and History: Clues to the Cultural Construction of Law | |
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| The Development of an Irish American Community in New York City before the Great Migration | |
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| The Great Migration: 1844 to 1877 | |
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| Overview: "The Most Irish City in the Union": The Era of the Great Migration, 1844-1877 | |
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| "Desirable Companions and Lovers": Irish and African Americans in the Sixth Ward, 1830-1870 | |
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| Quimbo Appo's Fear of Fenians: Chinese-Irish-Anglo Relations in New York City | |
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| Illness and Medical Care among Irish Immigrants in Antebellum New York | |
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| Shrewd Irishmen: Irish Entrepreneurs and Artisans in New York's Clothing Industry, 1830-1880 | |
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| Union Green: The Irish Community and the Civil War | |
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| The Turn of the Century: 1877 to 1914 | |
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| Overview: Forging Forward and Looking Back | |
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| Going to the Ladies' Fair: Irish Catholics in New York City, 1870-1900 | |
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| The Irish Language in New York, 1850-1900 | |
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| Irish County Societies in New York, 1880-1914 | |
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| The Irish American Worker in Transition, 1877-1914: New York City as a Test Case | |
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| "In Time of Peace, Prepare for War": Key Themes in the Social Thought of New York's Irish Nationalists, 1890-1916 | |
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| The Early Twentieth Century: 1914 to 1945 | |
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| Overview: When New York Was Irish, and After | |
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| Striking for Ireland on the New York Docks | |
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| Of "Mornin' Glories" and "Fine Old Oaks": John Purroy Mitchel, Al Smith, and Reform as an Expression of Irish American Aspiration | |
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| "From the East Side to the Seaside": Irish Americans on the Move in New York City | |
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| The Modern Era: 1945 to 1992 | |
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| Overview: An End and a Beginning | |
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| The Neighborhood Changed: The Irish of Washington Heights and Inwood since 1945 | |
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| Emigrants, Eirepreneurs, and Opportunists: A Social Profile of Recent Irish Immigration in New York City | |
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| Irish Traditional and Popular Music in New York City: Identity and Social Change, 1930-1975 | |
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| The Heart's Speech No Longer Stifled: New York Irish Writing since the 1960s | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Appendix 1 Statistical Tables | |
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| Appendix 2 Maps | |
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| Notes | |
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| Select Bibliography | |
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| Contributors | |
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| Index | |