Making the Irish American: History and Heritage of the Irish in the United StatesJ.J. Lee, Marion R. Casey NYU Press, 2006 - 733 Seiten This lavish compendium looks at the Irish and America from a variety of perspectives.-USA Today"From the double-meaning of its title to its roster of impressive contributors,Making the Irish Americanis destined for the bookshelves of all readers who aim to keep up on Irish-American history."-Irish America"InMaking the Irish American, editors J.J. Lee and Marion R. Casey have compiled an illustrated 700-page volume that traces the history of the Irish in the United States and shows the impact America has had on its Irish immigrants and vice versa. The book''s 29 articles deal with various aspects of Irish-American life, including labor and unions, discrimination, politics, sports, entertainment and nationalism, as well as the future of Irish America. Among the contributors are Calvin Trillin, Pete Hamill, Daniel Patrick Moynihan and the editors."-Associated Press"This massive volume, copublished with Glucksman Ireland House at NYU, covers the Americanization of the Irish in 29 chapters. Eileen Reilly takes a comprehensive, albeit sanitized, look at the history of Ireland up to the present, covering everything from famine to the Good Friday accords. One thing that stands out is the remarkable misogynistic burden that Eamon DeValera''s policies placed on Irish women (a married woman could not teach, and the government seemed to have a vested interest in her sexual habits, even through the 1980s). As the Irish inundated America during the Great Famine, we see them crawl up the ladder of success with the help of the ''Ubiquitous Bridget,'' the indispensable Irish maids whose work spanned two centuries. Novelist Peter Quinn looks at ''Irish progress from Paddies to Pats.'' The importance of labor unions in the rise of the Irish into the middle class is documented, as well as how, through battle in two world wars, the Irish finally earned their acceptance as nonhyphenated Americans, capped off by John F. Kennedy''s election as president in 1960. This extremely thorough, thoughtful volume covers all the Irish bases up to the present."-Publishers WeeklyFeaturing 29 classic and original essays on the turbulent, vital, and fascinating story of the Irish in America. The contributors include Linda Dowling Almeida, Margaret Lynch-Brennan, Marion R. Casey, David Noel Doyle, Pete Hamill, Kevin Kenny, Rebecca S. Miller, Mick Moloney, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Peter Quinn, and Calvin Trillin.All it takes is one St. Patrick''s Day in the United States to realize that the Irish did not dissolve into the melting pot, they took possession of it. Few other immigrant peoples have exerted such pervasive influence, have left so deep an impression, have made their values and concerns so central to the destiny of their new country.InMaking the Irish American, J.J. Lee and Marion R. Casey offer a feast of twenty-nine perspectives on the turbulent, vital, endlessly fascinating story of the Irish in America. Combining original research with reprints of classic works, these essays and articles extend far beyond a survey to offer a truly rich understanding of the Irish immigrant impact on America, and America''s impact on the Irish immigrant.Here the reader will find a brisk, compact history of Ireland itself, and a wide-ranging critique of Irish American historiography, as well as explorations of the multiple complications of religion, reflected in the fluctuating, and sometimes tempestuous, relations between Catholic and Protestant Irish and Scotch-Irish. The authors explore the various channels through which the Irish, men and women, have made their mark, from politics to labor organization, from domestic service to popular and traditional music, from sport to step dancing.Classic reprints include Daniel Patrick Moynihan''s study of the Irish in New York, Pete Hamill''s memoir of President Kennedy-recollecting the responses around him in Belfast at the time of the assassination-Calvin Trillin''sNew Yorkerprofile of Judge James J. Comerford, long the iron-handed bos |
Inhalt
The Irish Background | 4 |
Margaret Gorman Miss America 1922 frontispiece | 19 |
Satirical cartoon by Frederick Opper for Puck 1894 | 26 |
Muckross Abbey Killarney County Kerry circa 1920s | 34 |
Irish on board the S S St Louis 1930s | 42 |
Map Ireland 1922 to the Present | 62 |
An Introductory Survey | 63 |
Foundations | 76 |
Gregory Dillon circa 1851 | 307 |
Minutes Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank 20 April 1850 | 317 |
Irish Immigrant Women in Domestic Service | 332 |
Passport for Mary Anne Molly Ryan 1932 | 335 |
Nora McCarthy and Mary Hayes circa 1900 | 342 |
Labor and Labor Organizations | 354 |
Factory boys Lowell Massachusetts 1911 | 361 |
Race Violence and AntiIrish Sentiment in the Nineteenth Century | 364 |
Poster The Rebel A Drama of the Irish Rebellion 1900 | 79 |
Souvenir print Ireland for the Irish circa 18351845 | 87 |
Souvenir print The Fenian Banner 1866 | 97 |
Limerick children by the Treaty Stone 1903 | 108 |
Dublin Quay during the Easter Rising 1916 | 118 |
Scots Irish or ScotchIrish | 151 |
The Irish in North America 17761845 | 171 |
Membership certificate Hibernian Society of Charleston circa 1820s | 181 |
Bylaws Hibernian Benevolent Association of Troy New York 1834 | 196 |
The Remaking of IrishAmerica 18451880 | 213 |
Irish Emigrants Leaving Their Home for America 1866 | 222 |
Hibernian Hall Charleston South Carolina 1865 | 229 |
The Herald of Relief from America 1880 | 239 |
Ulster Presbyterians and the Two Traditions in Ireland | 255 |
Henry Eatons headstone Maryland 1943 | 259 |
Religious Rivalry and the Making of IrishAmerican Identity | 271 |
Lithograph Jamie and the Bishop 1844 | 277 |
Address to the UlsterIrish Society of New York 1939 | 286 |
Advertisement Fenian brand shirt collars circa 1866 | 291 |
Memory and the Founders of | 302 |
Postcard The ColorBearers St Patricks Day 1905 | 374 |
IrishAmerican Popular Music | 381 |
Songster Squatters Sovereignty 1882 | 390 |
The Irish and Vaudeville | 406 |
A Brief History of Irish Step Dancing in America | 417 |
IrishAmerican Festivals | 426 |
The Nineteenth Century | 443 |
The Twentieth Century | 457 |
The Irish 1963 1970 | 475 |
Once We Were Kings 1999 | 526 |
Democracy in Action 1988 | 535 |
Irish America 19402000 | 548 |
TwentiethCentury American Catholicism and Irish Americans | 574 |
Communal Loyalties in | 609 |
The Twentieth Century | 649 |
Looking for Jimmy 1999 | 663 |
The Future of Irish America 2000 | 680 |
Contributors | 693 |
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