Being Had: Historians, Evidence, and the Irish in North America

by Donald Harman Akenson

Professor Akenson proposes a radical revision in the way that we view that most fascinating of North american ethnic groups, the Irish.

243 pages, Hardcover

First published March 1, 1985

About the author

[From book The United States and Ireland (1973):]

Donald Harman Akenson teaches history at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. He was born in Minneapolis, took his degrees at Yale and Harvard, and taught and held administrative positions at both of those universities. He is the author of The Irish Education Experiment (1970); The Church of Ireland (1971); and Education and Enmity: The Control of Schooling in Northern Ireland (1973).