
Irish America
Reginald Byron(Author)
Oxford University Press
Published on 1. December 1999
Book
Hardback
328 pages
978-0-19-823356-5 (ISBN)
Description
Few writers on the Irish in America have looked beyond the 19th-century ethnic enclaves of New York, Boston, Philadelphia, or Chicago, or have asked how the notion of an Irish-American ethnic identity in contemporary America can be reconciled with five, six, or seven generations of intermarriage and assimilation over the last century and a half. This study, based on interviews with 500 people of Irish ancestry in Albany, New York, aims to discover in what senses and in what degrees the present-day descendants of 19th-century Irish immigrants possess distinctive social practices and ways of seeing the world, and raises questions about the social conditions in which ideas of Irishness have been created and re-created.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
bibliography
ISBN-13
978-0-19-823356-5 (9780198233565)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
Colonists and immigrants; as Irish as any city in America; the past in the present; over the generations; Irish-Catholic-Democrat; the importance of being Irish; the wearing of the green; a socioscape of Irish America.