From Democrats to Divided Loyalties: Irish American Politics 1930s to the 1990s

Timothy Meagher is a former Associate Professor, Curator of American Catholic History, and University Archivist at The Catholic University of America. Meagher is an expert on Irish American history. His publications on the topic include Inventing Irish America: Generation, Class and Ethnic Identity in a New England City 1880 to 1928 (University of Notre Dame Press, 2001), winner of the James Donnelly Prize for the best book in Irish and Irish American history, and The Columbia Guide to Irish American History (Columbia University Press, 2005). 

In the fourth episode of The Last Hurrah, Liam and Scott sit down with Professor Meagher for a conversation on how Irish American Catholics remade the Democratic Party, Irish America’s role in World War II and the Cold War, and its shift toward the Republican Party in the latter half of the 20th century.