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Ellen Skerrett

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Pen Name: None

Connection to Illinois: Skerrett is a noted Chicago historian.

Biography: Skerrett is an independent scholar specializing in the history of Irish Catholics in Chicago.


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Primary Literary Genre(s): Non-Fiction

Primary Audience(s): Adult readers

Ellen Skerrett on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=ellen+skerrett


Selected Titles

Catholicism, Chicago style
ISBN: 082940774X OCLC: 28665531

Chicago, city of neighborhoods :
ISBN: 082940497X OCLC: 12587104

Loyola University Press, Chicago : ©1986.

A guide to fifteen tours through Chicago neighborhoods emphasizing historic landmarks and pointing out institutions and buildings which had important roles in each neighborhoods growth.

The Irish in Chicago /
ISBN: 0252013972 OCLC: 14379040

University of Illinois Press, Urbana : ©1987.

Examines the history, religion, politics, and literature of one of the city's most influential ethnic groups.

 

 

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