...Chicago Irish (1976, 1987), and in The Irish Voice in America: Irish American Fiction from the 1760s to the 1980s (1990), Charles Fanning described Finley Peter Dunne (1867-1936) as "The earliest Irish voice of genius," and Martin J. Dooley as "the first truly memorable character In American literature." According to Fanning, Dunne, in his 1890s Chicago Evening Post Mr. Dooley essays, created the first authentic urban ethnic neighborhood ha American literature. Except for priests, firemen, policemen, and politicians, Dunne's Bridgeport Irish belonged to the unskilled working class. Also an expert on James T. Farrell, Fanning in The Irish Voice in America and other places, including his "introduction" to this reissue of A World I Never Made, has described how Farrell depicted and analyzed the social progress of Chicago's Irish from shack and cold-water-flat residents to steam heat apartments dwellers and from members of the unskilled working to the lower middle class, constantly moving south to escape advancing African Americans. Farrell did so most famously and thoroughly in three Studs Lonigan and five O'Neill-O'Flaherty novels.

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