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Published 1984, with biographies of a number of prominent Irish Americans and businesspeople ( 24 men and one woman - (who is a nun!) . includes business leaders, trade union organisers, academics, and architects - in the form of Kevin Roche. As US Irish politicians were perhaps betterknown ( and would have filled several books on their own) they are not included. At the time of writing, the author asserts that 35% of corporate America was led by the Irish, either Irish born or of Irish extraction.
Hardcover in dustjacket, 195 pages and index, portrait photos of all the contributors, published by Kilbride Books, 1984. Foreword by Tomás ó Fiach and introduction by Joseph Lee.