Irish America / Reginald Byron.
"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...
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| Online Access: | Electronic book from EBSCO |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999. |
| Series: | Oxford studies in social and cultural anthropology.
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| Genre: | Electronic books. |
| Summary: | "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 recreated."--Jacket. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 317 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0585486328 9780585486321 1280442646 9781280442643 9786610442645 6610442649 9786610758784 6610758786 9786610806911 6610806918 |
| Access: | Access limited to authorized users. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Source of description: Print version record. |