Ireland and Irish America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ireland and Irish America write by Kerby A. Miller. This book was released on 2008. Ireland and Irish America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Between 1600 and 1929, perhaps seven million men and women left Ireland and crossed the Atlantic. Ireland and Irish America is concerned with Catholics and Protestants, rural and urban dwellers, men and women on both sides of that vast ocean. Drawing on over thirty years of research, in sources as disparate as emigrants' letters and demographic data, it recovers the experiences and opinions of emigrants as varied as the Rev. James McGregor, who in 1718 led the first major settlement of Presbyterians from Ulster to the New World, Mary Rush, a desperate refugee from the Great Famine in County Sligo, and Tom Brick, an Irish-speaking Kerryman on the American prairie in the early 1900s. Above all, Ireland and Irish America offers a trenchant analysis of mass migration's causes, its consequences, and its popular and political interpretations. In the process, it challenges the conventional 'two traditions' (Protestant versus Catholic) paradigm of Irish and Irish diasporan history, and it illuminates the hegemonic forces and relationships that governed the Irish and Irish-American worlds created and linked by transatlantic capitalism.
Emigrants and Exiles
Emigrants and Exiles - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Emigrants and Exiles write by Kerby A. Miller. This book was released on 1988. Emigrants and Exiles available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Explains the reasons for the large Irish emigration, and examines the problems they faced adjusting to new lives in the United States.
Textures of Irish America
Textures of Irish America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Textures of Irish America write by Lawrence J. McCaffrey. This book was released on 1998-10-01. Textures of Irish America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The "textures" of the Irish-American experience have been manifold, greatly influencing this country's economic, social, and cultural development over the past two centuries. Unlike that of many other European immigrants, the Irish journey to America was viewed largely as a one-way trip. They quickly adjusted to America, soon becoming citizens and active participants in politics. By the end of the 19th century, they dominated not only most American cities but also sports, especially baseball, and many were prominent in show business. In this entertaining study of one of America's most engaging and controversial groups, Lawrence McCaffrey reveals how the Irish adapted to urban life, progressing from unskilled working class to solid middle class. Denied power and influence in business and commerce, they achieved both through politics and the Catholic church. In addition to politicians and churchmen, McCaffrey discusses the roles of writers such as Finley Peter Dunne, James T. Farrell, Eugene O'Neill, J.F. Powers, Edwin O'Connor, William Kennedy, Elizabeth Cullinan, Tom Flanagan, Thomas Fleming, Jimmy Breslin, and John Gregory Dunne, as well as such film stars as Jimmy Cagney, Bing Crosby. Grace and Gene Kelly, and Spencer Tracy. McCaffrey completes the story with a look at the role of Irish nationalism in developing the personality of Irish America and in liberating Ireland from British colonialism. The result of some forty years of thinking and writing about Irish-American life, McCaffrey's Textures will appeal to scholars and general readers alike and may very well becomes the standard work on Irish America.
Making the Irish American
Making the Irish American - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Making the Irish American write by J.J. Lee. This book was released on 2007-03. Making the Irish American available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Explores the history of the Irish in America, offering an overview of Irish history, immigration to the United States, and the transition of the Irish from the working class to all levels of society.
The Irish Americans
The Irish Americans - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Irish Americans write by Jay P. Dolan. This book was released on 2010-02-15. The Irish Americans available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Follows the Irish from their first arrival in the American colonies through the bleak days of the potato famine, the decades of ethnic prejudice and nativist discrimination, the rise of Irish political power, and on to the historic moment when John F. Kennedy was elected to the highest office in the land.
