Portland Public Library

Seated by the sea, the maritime history of Portland, Maine, and its Irish longshoremen, Michael C. Connolly ; foreword by Joseph E. Brennan

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Seated by the sea

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Michael C. Connolly ; foreword by Joseph E. Brennan

New perspectives on maritime history and nautical archaeologyWorking in the Americas

the maritime history of Portland, Maine, and its Irish longshoremen

"Delightfully situated on a healthy hill" : the port of Portland before the Civil War -- Black fades to green on the waterfront : nineteenth-century social, racial, and ethnic change -- A mixed blessing : Portland at the turn of the twentieth century -- Lost strikes and union affiliation : early twentieth-century labor militancy alongshore -- Apex of the union and Catholic hierarchical influence -- Longshore culture and the decline of the port of Portland in the mid- to late twentieth century -- Conclusion: The port of Portland in the twenty-first century and its maritime future -- Appendix A: Portland Town -- Appendix B: Day of the Clipper -- Appendix C: PLSBS retirement list as of January 1983 -- Appendix D: Oral histories -- Appendix E: Longshore nicknames -- Appendix F: Membership levels of the Portland Longshoremen's Benevolent Society