Banished Children of Eve by: Peter Quinn;Penguin Books Also PBS has an excellant video on the History of New York City...a large part incompases Tammany Hall, Cival War draft Rebellion & Irish of NYC thriugh the 20th century..this can be purchased through the PBS catalogue, check with your Public Broadcast Station. Try some great sites on computer...< http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~nyirish/research.html>...Home page of NYC Irish 1800's or <http://www.mcny.org/irish.htm> Gaelic Gotham...History of Irish in NY...or <http://r2.gsa.gov/fivept/fphome.htm> Walt Whitman's Five Points happy searching....Ellie