After the flood
Subtitle: Irish America, 1945-1960
By: editors, James Silas Rogers, Matthew J. O'Brien.
Contributors: Rogers, James; O'Brien, Matthew J., 1968-
Series: Irish abroad; Irish abroad
Publisher: Irish Academic Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Dublin; Portland, OR
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9780716529873; 9780716529880
Subjects: Irish -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Irish Americans -- History -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Dance halls of romance and culchies in tuxedos: Irish traditional music in America in the 1950s / Geaŕoid Ó hAllmhuráin; title: Playing 'Irish' sport on baseball's hallowed ground: the 1947 All-Ireland Gaelic Football Final / Sara Brady; title: 'The Irish Movement in this country is now moribund': the anti-partition campaign of 1948-1951 in the United States / Troy D. Davis; title: 'Hibernians on the march': Irish-American ethnicity and the Cold War / Matthew J. O'Brien; title: Shamrocks and segregation: the persistence of upper-class Irish ethnicity in Beverly Hills, Chicago / Margaret Lee; title: Irish New Yorkers and the Puerto Rican migration / Eileen Anderson; title: From 'peace and freedom' to 'peace and quiet': The quiet man as a product of the 1950s / Edward A. Hagan; title: Ahead of their time: Irish-American women writers, 1945-1906 / Sally Barr Ebest; title: Ireland as a past life: Bridey Murphy and Irish-American tourism to Ireland, 1945-1960 / Stephanie Rains; title: Ignorable Irishry: leprechauns and postwar satire / James Silas Rogers; title: Unnatural law: William McGivern's rogue cops / Tony Tracy; title: Beyond St. Malachi's, there is nothing: Edward McSorley and the persistence of tradition / Christopher Shannon; title: Present at the creation: John V. Kelleher and the emergence of Irish studies in America / Charles Fanning.