Book Description:
The Puget Sound area has been greatly influenced by the Irish, and while many of the names and events described in
Irish Seattle are familiar, until now their Irish connections were rarely acknowledged. James Geraghty, born in
County Mayo, became a Washington State Supreme Court Justice. John Collins, from County Cavan, became Seattle’s
fourth mayor. Bridget Manion from County Galway was once housekeeper to Seattle Pioneer Henry Yesler, and a Seattle
newspaper later called her “The Queen of Alaska”. The Burke Museum’s Judge Thomas Burke, “The Man who Built
Seattle,” had Irish parents. “The Mercer Girls” included Irish women brought west to Seattle in 1864. Thousands of
Irishmen came through Seattle during the 1897-1900 Klondike Gold Rush and thronged the city streets. In 1919, the
Seattle P-I headlined that Ireland’s revolutionary leader, Eamon de Valera, the “Head of So-Called Irish Republic”,
was greeted by a “Tumultuous Throng” on a Seattle visit.

Irish Seattle is a fascinating retrospective covering 150 years of Seattle history and pays tribute to the
first- and second-generation Irish who lived in the Puget Sound region during that time. In more than 200
photographs and illustrations, this pictorial history chronicles the contributions of the Irish to an area whose
landscape and climate reminded them of home.

Some of the photos in "IRISH SEATTLE"


Maloney’s North Bend Livery Stable............First Irish-Born Pro Hockey Player ................Gov. Roosevelt's Irish housekeeper

1951, at Cobh, Co. Cork............1915, Seattle Policeman James O'Brien............1909, Bing and Mary Rose Crosby

1919, "Dev" visits Seattle............1953, coming to America............1950s Irish Club dance


1964 Vietnam evacuation............1896, Irish-born "Queen of Alaska"............John Doyle Bishop


A poem printed in the May 1, 1925 issue of "THE ISLAND LANTERN",
the newspaper at McNeil Island Federal Penitentiary near Olympia.

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