Ireland and Irish America
Subtitle: culture, class, and transatlantic migration
By: Kerby A. Miller.
Contributors: Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies.
Series: Field day files -- 3
Publisher: Field Day in association with the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Dublin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 411
ISBN-13: 9780946755394
Subjects: Irish Americans -- History; Ireland -- Emigration and immigration -- History; United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: I. Culture, class, and emigration in Irish society.  Emigrants and exiles: Irish cultures and Irish emigration to North America ; Emigration and society in pre-famine Ireland ; 'Revenge for Skibbereen': Irish emigration and the meaning of the Great Famine ; Emigration as exile: cultural hegemony in post-famine Ireland ; Paddy's paradox: emigration to America in Irish imagination and rhetoric; title: II. Irish Protestants in Ireland and America.  'Scotch-Irish' ethnicity in early America: its regional and political origins ; 'Scotch-Irish', 'Black Irish', and 'Real Irish': emigrants and identities in the Old South ; Forging 'the Protestant way of life': class conflict and the origins of Unionist hegemony in early nineteenth-century Ulster ; The lost world of Andrew Johnston: sectarianism, social conflict, and cultural change in Southern Ireland during the pre-famine era ; The famine's scars: William Murphy's Ulster and American odyssey; title: III. Irish immigration and the creation of Irish America.  Class, culture, and ethnicity: the construction of Irish America in the nineteenth century ; The pauper, the politician, and the creation of Irish America ; For 'love and liberty': Irishwomen, migration, and domesticity in Ireland and America, 1815-1929 ; Assimilation and alienation: Irish immigrants' responses to industrial America, 1870s-1920s ; From the Gaeltacht to the prairie: Tom Brick's Ireland and America, 1881-1979; title: Epilogue: Re-imagining Irish and Irish migration history.