Creative Migrant
Patrick O'Sullivan(Editor)
Leicester University Press
Published on 1. March 1994
Book
Hardback
240 pages
978-0-7185-1423-5 (ISBN)
Description
The Irish have emigrated in vast numbers for centuries. More than any other Europeans they have been obliged to transplant, maintain and develop a national culture in novel, indifferent or hostile surroundings. This series of six books is an account of their various experiences all over the world. It is a comprehensive synthesis - drawing on history, geography, social science, and studies of literature, music and the arts to provide a detailed picture of the experience of migration and assimiliation over the centuries to the present day. Thus the series represents a major contribution both to migration studies and to the history of Ireland and the many countries in which the Irish have settled. This third volume of the series on the migration of the Irish throughout the world is a study of the artistic and intellectual changes wrought on migrants by their new societies, and the effects on the home culture of Irish immigration.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
index
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
500 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7185-1423-5 (9780718514235)
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Content
Ireland and the scientific tradition, Martin J. Counihan; "Till their...bog-trotting feet get talaria" - Henry D. Thoreau and the Irish immigrant, James P. Myers Jr; the Irish joke, Patrick O'Sullivan; the stage Irish, Owen Dudley Edwards; "the sigh of thy harp shall be sent over the deep" - the influence of Thomas Moore in Australia, Frank Molloy; hunting the Fenians - problems in the historiography of a secret organizaiton, Patrick J. Quinlivan; storytellers and writers -Irish identity in emigrant labourers' autobiographies, 1870-1970, Bernard Canavan; the Irish migrant in cinema, Kevin Rockett; Irish dance world-wide - Irish migrants and the shaping of traditional Irish dance, John P. Cullinane; my love is in America - migraiton and Irish music, Graeme Smith.