Making the Irish American : history and heritage of the Irish in the United States / edited by J.J. Lee and Marion R. Casey.

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Other Authors: Casey, Marion R., 1962- Lee, Joseph, 1942-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published:New York : New York University Press, [2006], ©2006.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: interpreting Irish America / J.J. Lee
  • Modern Ireland: an introductory survey / Eileen Reilly
  • Scots Irish or Scotch-Irish / David Noel Doyle
  • Irish in North America, 1776-1845 / David Noel Doyle
  • Remaking of Irish-America, 1845-1880 / David Noel Doyle
  • Ulster Presbyterians and the "two traditions" in Ireland and America / Kerby A. Miller
  • Religious rivalry and the making of Irish-American identity / Irene Whelan
  • Address to the Ulster-Irish Society of New York, 1939 / Henry Noble MacCracken
  • American-Irish nationalism / Kevin Kenny
  • Refractive history: memory and the founders of the Emigrant Savings Bank / Marion R. Casey
  • Ubiquitous Bridget: Irish immigrant women in domestic service in America, 1840-1930 / Margaret Lynch-Brennan
  • Labor and labor organizations / Kevin Kenny
  • Race, violence, and anti-Irish sentiment in the neneteenth century / Kevin Kenny
  • Irish-American popular music / Mick Moloney
  • Irish and vaudeville / Robert W. Snyder
  • Irish traditional music in the United States / Rebecca S. Miller
  • Before Riverdance: a brief history of Irish step dancing in America / Marion R. Casey
  • Irish-American festivals / Mick Moloney.
  • Irish Americans in sports: the nineteenth century / Ralph Wilcox
  • Irish Americans in sports: the twentieth century / Larry McCarthy
  • Irish (1963, 1970) / Daniel Patrick Moynihan
  • Once we were kings (1999) / Pete Hamill
  • Democracy in action (1988) / Calvin Trillin
  • Irish America, 1940-2000 / Linda Dowling Almeida
  • Twentieth-century American Catholicism and Irish Americans / Thomas J. Shelley
  • Fireman on the stairs: communal loyalties in the making of Irish America / Timothy J. Meagher
  • Tradition of Irish-American writers: the twentieth century / Danile J. Casey, Robert E. Rhodes
  • Looking for Jimmy (1999) / Peter Quinn
  • Future of Irish America (2000) / Peter Quinn.