In 'Twas Only an Irishman's Dream, William H. A. Williams traces the change in this image through more than 700 pieces of sheet music--popular songs from the stage and for the parlor--to show how Americans' opinions of Ireland and the Irish ...

Historian Williams updates his 1997 study of American writer Mencken (1880-1956) in light of subsequent scholarship and the publication of his diaries and memoirs in the 1990s.