Part 1. Life and labor
Life in the Irish American community: an overview
Radicals and reformers: the origins of women's labor activism and alliances
Part 2. Irish nationalism
Charitable Colleens or voracious viragoes? The influence of the Ladies' Land League and its legacy
Propaganda, protest, purchasing, and picketing: Irish American women's nationalist strategies in the twentieth century
The suffrage movement
The politics of identity: Irish Americans and woman suffrage in the nineteenth century
Twentieth-century connections: suffrage tactics, trade unionists, and the lessons of Tammany Hall
Conclusion.