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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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999. |
| Series: | Oxford studies in social and cultural anthropology.
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| 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."--BOOK JACKET. |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 317 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [301]-310) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0198233558 (pbk. : acid-free paper) 0198233566 (hc : acid-free paper) |
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