William Barnaby Faherty (1914–2011)
Autor(a) de Gateway to the Moon: Building the Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex
About the Author
William Barnaby Faherty is professor emeritus of history at St. Louis University and director of the Museum of the Western Jesuit Missions in Hazelwood, Missouri. He is the author of 25 books
Image credit: William Barnaby Faherty [credit: St. Louis Review]
Séries
Obras por William Barnaby Faherty
The Saint Louis portrait : a pictorial and entertaining commentary on the growth and development of Saint Louis,… (1978) 14 exemplares
Florida's Space Coast: The Impact of NASA on the Sunshine State (Florida History and Culture) (2002) 11 exemplares
A Gift to Glory In: The First Hundred Years of the Missouri Botanical Garden, 1859-1959 (1989) 6 exemplares
Deep Roots & Golding Wings: One Hundred and Fifty Years with the Visitation Sisters in the Archdiocese of Saint Louis,… (1982) 3 exemplares
The Fourth Career of John B. Bannon: St. Louis Pastor, Southern Chaplain, Confederate Agent and Irish Jesuit Orator (1994) 3 exemplares
The Catholic Ancestry of Saint Louis 1 exemplar
St. Louis - A Concise History 1 exemplar
Destiny of Modern Woman 1 exemplar
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome canónico
- Faherty, William Barnaby
- Nome legal
- Faherty, William Barnaby
- Outros nomes
- Faherty, W. B.
Faherty, William Barby - Data de nascimento
- 1914-12-17
- Data de falecimento
- 2011-08-22
- Localização do túmulo
- Calvary Cemetery, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- St. Louis, Missouri, USA
- Local de falecimento
- St. Louis, Missouri, USA
- Locais de residência
- St. Louis, Missouri, USA
- Educação
- Jesuit Seminary, Florissant Missouri
St. Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri USA (PhD|History) - Ocupações
- Jesuit priest
professor
author
historian
archivist - Organizações
- St. Louis University
Society of Jesus
Regis College
Membros
Críticas
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 40
- Membros
- 299
- Popularidade
- #78,483
- Avaliação
- 3.9
- Críticas
- 4
- ISBN
- 34
Here is a litany of Irish surnames, some of them familiar from St. Louis landmarks and street names. Irish people who were influential in religion, education, literature, business, industry, politics, labor unions, sports, etc., plus women of distinction. The stories of Bryan Mullanphy on page 38 are heartwarming. A true St. Louis hero, along with fireman Phelim O'Toole. The names change as the city changes: immigration and growth, demographic and ethnic changes, new parishes and institutions. Two chapters cover St. Louis Irish responses to the Civil War. Others tell of Irish participation in the World’s Fair, the world wars, and the World Series.
This book may be useful in genealogy research. The map on page 57 shows which Catholic parishes were Irish, which German, and which French--valuable clues in tracking down church records.
A very Catholic book. One could argue that it has a pro-clerical bias, but that's the way it was with the Irish. Readable, though poorly edited. It covers all the obvious angles, from the eighteenth century to Mark McGwire's home run chase with Sammy Sosa. Illustrated with many historic photographs.… (mais)