Eccentric nation
Subtitle: Irish performance in nineteenth-century New York City
By: Stephen Rohs.
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; Associated University Presses
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Madison; Cranbury, NJ
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780838641385
Subjects: Irish Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Ethnic identity -- History -- 19th century; Irish Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Intellectual life -- 19th century; Performance art -- Social aspects -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century; Nationalism -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century; Community life -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century; City and town life -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century; Popular culture -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century; New York (N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century; New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions -- 19th century; New York (N.Y.) -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 19th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Resistance as community : "The bold soldier boy" and the Know Nothing crisis; title: Cultural minstrelsy's romantic Irish : the Colleen Bawn, accommodation, and the marketplace; title: Remembered traditions : the Galloglach, "Boyne water," and the 1871 Orange Riot; title: The Mulligan guard ball : Irish minstrels and urban spectacles.