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The Irish Americans
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Author : Jay P. Dolan
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2010-06-01
The Irish Americans written by Jay P. Dolan and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-01 with History categories.
Jay Dolan of Notre Dame University is one of America's most acclaimed scholars of immigration and ethnic history. In THE IRISH AMERICANS, he caps his decades of writing and teaching with this magisterial history of the Irish experience in the United States. Although more than 30 million Americans claim Irish ancestry, no other general account of Irish American history has been published since the 1960s. Dolan draws on his own original research and much other recent scholarship to weave an insightful, colorful narrative. He follows the Irish from their first arrival in the American colonies through the bleak days of the potato famine that brought millions of starving immigrants; the trials of ethnic prejudice and "No Irish Need Apply;" the rise of Irish political power and the heyday of Tammany politics; to the election of John F. Kennedy as president, a moment of triumph when an Irish American ascended to the highest office in the land. Dolan evokes the ghastly ships crowded with men and women fleeing the potato blight; the vibrant life of Catholic parishes in cities like New York and Chicago; the world of machine politics, where ward bosses often held court in the local saloon. Rich in colorful detail, balanced in judgment, and the most comprehensive work of its kind yet published, THE AMERICAN IRISH is a lasting achievement by a master historian that will become a must-have volume for any American with an interest in the Irish-American heritage.
Ireland And Irish America
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Author : Kerby A. Miller
language : en
Publisher: Field Day Publications
Release Date : 2008
Ireland And Irish America written by Kerby A. Miller and has been published by Field Day Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Social Science categories.
Between 1600 and 1929, perhaps seven million men and women left Ireland and crossed the Atlantic. Ireland and Irish America is concerned with Catholics and Protestants, rural and urban dwellers, men and women on both sides of that vast ocean. Drawing on over thirty years of research, in sources as disparate as emigrants' letters and demographic data, it recovers the experiences and opinions of emigrants as varied as the Rev. James McGregor, who in 1718 led the first major settlement of Presbyterians from Ulster to the New World, Mary Rush, a desperate refugee from the Great Famine in County Sligo, and Tom Brick, an Irish-speaking Kerryman on the American prairie in the early 1900s. Above all, Ireland and Irish America offers a trenchant analysis of mass migration's causes, its consequences, and its popular and political interpretations. In the process, it challenges the conventional 'two traditions' (Protestant versus Catholic) paradigm of Irish and Irish diasporan history, and it illuminates the hegemonic forces and relationships that governed the Irish and Irish-American worlds created and linked by transatlantic capitalism.
Textures Of Irish America
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Author : Lawrence J. McCaffrey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992-08
Textures Of Irish America written by Lawrence J. McCaffrey and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-08 with History categories.
This is a history of the Irish-American experience, which focuses on religion, politics and Irish nationalism.
Irish Americans
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Author : William E. Watson
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2014-11-25
Irish Americans written by William E. Watson and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-25 with Social Science categories.
Virtually every aspect of American culture has been influenced by Irish immigrants and their descendants. This encyclopedia tells the full story of the Irish-American experience, covering immigration, assimilation, and achievement. The Irish have had a significant impact on America across three centuries, helping to shape politics, law, labor, war, literature, journalism, entertainment, business, sports, and science. This encyclopedia explores why the Irish came to America, where they settled, and how their distinctive Irish-American identity was formed. Well-known Irish Americans are profiled, but the work also captures the essence of everyday life for Irish-Americans as they have assimilated, established communities, and interacted with other ethnic groups. The approximately 200 entries in this comprehensive, one-stop reference are organized into four themes: the context of Irish-American emigration; political and economic life; cultural and religious life; and literature, the arts, and popular culture. Each section offers a historical overview of the subject matter, and the work is enriched by a selection of primary documents.
Screening Irish America
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Author : Ruth Barton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Screening Irish America written by Ruth Barton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Art categories.
Screening Irish-America is a major work in Irish-American screen studies. Sourced largely from papers delivered at the conference of the same name at University College Dublin and Boston College in the US in 2007, the book contains contributions by leading scholars in the field. Essays range from early and silent cinema through to recent television shows such as Scrubs. Topics include John Ford, the Irish-American gangster, Irish-American stars and the representation of the Scots-Irish and religion. Drawing on theories of ethnicity, gender, class and diaspora studies, this is the first publication in this academic area.
Irish On The Inside
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Author : Tom Hayden
language : en
Publisher: Verso
Release Date : 2001
Irish On The Inside written by Tom Hayden and has been published by Verso this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Political Science categories.
Tom Hayden first realized he was 'Irish on the inside' when he heard civil rights marchers in Northern Ireland singing 'We Shall Overcome' in 1969. Though his great-grandparents had been forced to emigrate to the US in the 1850s, Hayden's parents erased his Irish heritage in the quest for respectability. In this passionate book he explores the losses wrought by such conformism. Assimilation, he argues, has led to high rates of schizophrenia, depression, alcoholism and domestic violence within the Irish community. Today's Irish-Americans, Hayden contends, need to re-inhabit their history, to recognize that assimilation need not entail submission. By recognizing their links to others now experiencing the prejudice once directed at their ancestors, they can develop a sense of themselves that is both specific and inclusive: 'The survival of a distinct Irish soul is proof enough that Anglo culture will never fully satisfy our needs. We have a unique role in reshaping American society to empathize with the world's poor, for their story is the genuine story of the Irish.'
A Portrait Of The Irish In America
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Author : William D. Griffin
language : en
Publisher: Holiday House
Release Date : 1981
A Portrait Of The Irish In America written by William D. Griffin and has been published by Holiday House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Social Science categories.
Making The Irish American
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Author : J.J. Lee
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2007-03
Making The Irish American written by J.J. Lee and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-03 with History categories.
"Here is a new Clay Sanskrit Library publication of the middle book of Valmiki's Ramayana, the source revered throughout South Asia as the original account of the career of Rama, the ideal man and the incarnation of the great god Vishnu." "After losing first his kingship and then his wife, Sita, Rama goes to the monkey capital of Kishkindha to seek help in finding her, and meets Hanuman, the greatest of the monkey heroes. The brothers Valin and Sugriva are both claimants for the monkey throne; in exchange for the assistance of monkey troops in discovering where Sita is held captive, Rama has to help Sugriva win the throne. The monkey hordes set out in every direction to scour the world, but they have no success until an old vulture tells them Sita is in Lanka. The book concludes with Hanuman's preparation to leap over the ocean to Lanka to pursue the search." "The tragic rivalry between the two monkey brothers is in sharp contrast to Rama's affectionate relationship with his own brothers, and forms a self-contained episode within the larger story of Rama's adventures. Rama's intervention in the struggle between Sugriva and Valin is the chief moral focus of the book." --Book Jacket.
Irish America
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Author : Reginald Byron
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 1999-11-11
Irish America written by Reginald Byron and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-11-11 with Social Science categories.
Few writers on the Irish in America have looked beyond the nineteenth-century ethnic enclaves of New York, Boston, Philadelphia, or Chicago, or have asked how the notion of an Irish-American ethnic identity in contemporary America can be reconciled with five, six, or seven generations of intermarriage and assimilation over the last century and a half. This study, based on interviews with 500 people of Irish ancestry in Albany, New York, aims to discover in what senses and in what degrees the present-day descendants of nineteenth-century Irish immigrants possess distinctive social practices and ways of seeing the world, and raises questions about the social conditions in which ideas of Irishness have been created and re-created.
Enter The Irish American
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Author : Edward Wakin
language : en
Publisher: New York : Crowell
Release Date : 1976
Enter The Irish American written by Edward Wakin and has been published by New York : Crowell this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with Social Science categories.
Accounts of conditions which forced them to flee Ireland and their adjustments to America.