Try these links to learn more about Irish family history:

• Language
• Local Boston Organizations
• Research Help
• Further Reading

Language

• Philo-Celtic Society

Local Boston Organizations

• Irish Ancestral Research Association (TIARA)

Research Help

• Boston College
  Bapst Library -- 7500 volumes of Literature and History; Papers of Patrick Andrew Collins (1844-1905), President of the Irish Land League; Letters of Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa (1831-1915), Poet, editor, Fenian.
• Irish Genealogy
  Professionally-written articles.
• Irish Ancestral Research Association (TIARA)

• Archdeacon, Thomas. Becoming American: An Ethnic History, NY: The Free Press, 1983.
• Adamic, Louis. A Nation of Nations, NY: Harper and Brothers, 1944
• Adams, William Forbes. Ireland and Irish Immigration to the New World, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1980.
• Griffin, William D.. The Irish in America 1550-1972, Dobbs Ferry, NY: Oceana Pub, 1973.
• Handlin, Oscar. Boston's Immigrants: A Study in Acculturation, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1959.
• O'Connor, Thomas H.. The Boston Irish: A Political History, Boston: Northeastern Univ., 1995.
• Ryan, Dennis P.. Beyond the Ballot Box: A Social History of the Boston Irish, 1845-1917, East Brunswick, NJ: Associated University Presses, Inc., 1983.
• Shannon, William. The American Irish: A Political and Social Portrait, Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1963.
• Stack, John F.. International Conflict in an American City: Boston's Irish, Italians, and Jews 1935-1944, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1979.