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Acknowledgments Various archivists, librarians, and others assistedmein thecourseofmyresearch,andIamindebtedtothemall.TheStateHistorical Society of Missouri, Gary Cox of the archive department of the University of Missouri, and Robert Werle of the Christian Brothers of the Midwest archive helped me to piece together early details of the O’Shaughnessy familyasit movedanumberoftimesbeforesettlinginSt.Joseph,Missouri, in the 1880s. In St. Joseph, James O’Shaughnessy secured his first job in the media. Thomas, it is said, had already made his first stained glass window. Marsha Appel and Janie Hughes at the New York headquarters of the 4A’s (as the American Association of Advertising Agencies has long been known) helpfully located and scanned records that were of assistance in exploring the early history of the association and its external relationships under James. These too rarely used sources include a compilation of information about the genesis of the association as well as a report prepared in 1969 by Richard Turnbull of the 4A’s that refers to the early challenge of marshalingtheforcesofadvertisinginthenationalinterestandaspartofthe war effort. During my preparation of this book, I had the pleasure of being invited to visit the headquarters of the 4A’s on the Avenue of the Americas in Manhattan,whereIgaveapresentationonJamesO’Shaughnessytoemployees of the organization of which he was the first chief executive. I also welcomedanopportunityin2013todeliveranddiscussapaperaboutJames O’Shaughnessy at the Joint Journalism and Media History Conference of the American Journalism Historians Association and the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, in New York City. My faculty colleagues at Dublin City University provided useful feedback when I shared with them early research for this volume. The cost of purchasing illustrations for this book received financial support from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Book Publication Scheme at Dublin City University. xiv Acknowledgments OtherswhohavehelpedwithresearchincludethearchivistsatDavidM. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Duke University, North Carolina, and those at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, AgriculturalCommunicationsDocumentationCenter .TheRubensteinLibrary holds James O’Shaughnessy Papers relating to the period 1888-1936 as well as recordsoftheAmericanAssociationofAdvertisingAgencies,1918-1998. In addition to those mentioned above, I acknowledge the assistance of Bray Public Library, County Wicklow; the British Library, London; Chicago History Museum; Clay County Museum and Historical Society, Liberty ,Missouri;thelibraryofDublinCityUniversity;theEpiscopalDiocese of Chicago; the Irish Fellowship Club; the Irish Museum of Modern Art; the Kiltartan Gregory Museum, County Galway; the Library of Congress; the National Archives of Ireland; the National Library of Ireland; Old St. Patrick’s Church, Chicago; the Roman Catholic Diocese of Springfield, Illinois;theRoyalIrishAcademy;theSocietyofKing’sInns,Dublin;Trinity College Dublin. I thank, too, the Association of Advertisers in Ireland, the InstituteofAdvertisingPractitionersinIreland,Anne-MarieAngelo,Sharon Bladholm,DiarmuidP.Breathnach,DrPatrickBrereton,LauraCoyle,RichardDigby -Junger,MarydeLourdesFahy,TerryFarmer,Prof.JohnFerréof the University of Louisville, Allan Holtz, Bob Kolatorowicz, Prof. Joe Lee of Glucksman Ireland House, NYU; Michele Levandoski, Kris Lipkowski, MikeLizonitz,PatriciaMacken,JimMcLaughlin,Prof.JohnNeroneofthe UniversityofIllinois,DavidO’Callaghan,ThomasJ.O’GormanofChicago, BrigidO’Shaughnessyandherhusband,MikeLuxem,ofIllinois,Marianne and her late husband, Michael O’Shaughnessy, sometime of New Mexico, Rory O’Shaughnessy of County Galway, Crystal and Leland Payton of Missouri, Anne Sears of Plano, Illinois, Colman Shaughnessy of Kiltartan, Newland Smith, Colin Smythe, Kathy Taylor, and J. H. Waters of Illinois. I am of course grateful also to Gary Kass, Sara Davis, and others at the UniversityofMissouriPress,fortheirenthusiasmandencouragement.My wife,CatherineCurran,andmysons,Oisín,Conor,andSameachdeserves a special word of appreciation. An Irish-American Odyssey ...

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