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Author : Seamus P. Metress,Donna M. Hardy-Johnston
Publisher : P.D. Meany Pub.
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025166120
Author : David T. Gleeson
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2002-11-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807875636
The only comprehensive study of Irish immigrants in the nineteenth-century South, this book makes a valuable contribution to the story of the Irish in America and to our understanding of southern culture. The Irish who migrated to the Old South struggled to make a new home in a land where they were viewed as foreigners and were set apart by language, high rates of illiteracy, and their own self-identification as temporary exiles from famine and British misrule. They countered this isolation by creating vibrant, tightly knit ethnic communities in the cities and towns across the South where they found work, usually menial jobs. Finding strength in their communities, Irish immigrants developed the confidence to raise their voices in the public arena, forcing native southerners to recognize and accept them--first politically, then socially. The Irish integrated into southern society without abandoning their ethnic identity. They displayed their loyalty by fighting for the Confederacy during the Civil War and in particular by opposing the Radical Reconstruction that followed. By 1877, they were a unique part of the "Solid South." Unlike the Irish in other parts of the United States, the Irish in the South had to fit into a regional culture as well as American culture in general. By following their attempts to become southerners, we learn much about the unique experience of ethnicity in the American South.
Author : Kerby A. Miller
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : 0195051874
Explains the reasons for the large Irish emigration, and examines the problems they faced adjusting to new lives in the United States.
Author : Feargal Cochrane
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 071653018X
This book explores the changing relationship between Ireland and America in the modern world. Its main themes examine the shifting patterns of Irish migration over time and the implications of these changes for the political and cultural relationship between the two countries. The central argument made in the book is that the historic connection between Ireland and America is at a transitional point, and that while Irish-America is not disappearing altogether, it is changing in fundamental ways, mediated by the forces of globalisation and modernity. Conceptually, the book focuses on Irish-America as an evolved diaspora, in the sense of being a migrant community that has moved into the political, economic and cultural mainstream within US society. The eight chapters examine theories of diaspora and migration in the case of Irish-America and bring together interdisciplinary academic literature with new research. A number of important issues lie at the heart of this book for all of us. Where do we belong? Why do we belong there? Does global modernity allow us to mediate between where we are from and where we live, to transcend territorial restrictions and live our lives beyond, or in between, the country of our birth? This book engages with all of these issues in the context of the evolving relationship between Ireland and America.
Author : Kevin Kenny
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317889168
The American Irish: A History, is the first concise, general history of its subject in a generation. It provides a long-overdue synthesis of Irish-American history from the beginnings of emigration in the early eighteenth century to the present day. While most previous accounts of the subject have concentrated on the nineteenth century, and especially the period from the famine (1840s) to Irish independence (1920s), The American Irish: A History incorporates the Ulster Protestant emigration of the eighteenth century and is the first book to include extensive coverage of the twentieth century. Drawing on the most innovative scholarship from both sides of the Atlantic in the last generation, the book offers an extended analysis of the conditions in Ireland that led to mass migration and examines the Irish immigrant experience in the United States in terms of arrival and settlement, social mobility and assimilation, labor, race, gender, politics, and nationalism. It is ideal for courses on Irish history, Irish-American history, and the history of American immigration more generally.
Author : Megan O'Hara
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0736807950
Discusses the reasons Irish people left their homeland to come to America, the experiences immigrants had in the new country, and the contributions this cultural group made to American society. Includes sidebars and activities.
Author : Thomas D'Arcy McGee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1851
Category : Irish
ISBN : LCCN:06004418
Author : David Dobson
Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Com
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Canada
ISBN : 9780806349985
This compendium of forty-eight family histories was fashioned together from a careful study of Botetourt County marriages, wills, deeds, and death records from microfilm available at the Virginia State Library, as well as Botetourt County records housed at the county clerks'offices in Fincastle (Botetourt County), Salem (Roanoke County), and Lexington (Rockbridge County). The end result is an extensively annotated collection of early Botetourt families, many of whose progenitors were born in the 18th century.
Author : Jay P. Dolan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2010-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781608190102
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.
Author : Thomas D'Arcy McGee
Publisher : Boston : American Celt Office ; New York : Dunigan & Brother
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1851
Category : Irish
ISBN : UCAL:B3138740
Author : Arthur Gribben
Publisher : Univ of Massachusetts Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015045983874
"In Ireland, the Great Famine was a period of mass starvation, disease and emigration between 1845 and 1852. It is also known, mostly outside Ireland, as the Irish Potato Famine. In the Irish language it is called an Gorta Mór (IPA: [n t mo?], meaning "the Great Hunger") or an Drochshaol ([n dxhi?l], meaning "the bad life"). During the famine approximately 1 million people died and a million more emigrated from Ireland, causing the island's population to fall by between 20% and 25%."--Wikipedia.
Author : Debra Reddin van Tuyll,Mark O'Brien,Marcel Broersma
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780815655046
From the Revolutionary War forward, Irish immigrants have contributed significantly to the construction of the American Republic. Scholars have documented their experiences and explored their social, political, and cultural lives in countless books. Offering a fresh perspective, this volume traces the rich history of the Irish American diaspora press, uncovering the ways in which a lively print culture forged significant cultural, political, and even economic bonds between the Irish living in America and the Irish living in Ireland. As the only mass medium prior to the advent of radio, newspapers served to foster a sense of identity and a means of acculturation for those seeking to establish themselves in the land of opportunity. Irish American newspapers provided information about what was happening back home in Ireland as well as news about the events that were occurring within the local migrant community. They framed national events through Irish American eyes and explained the significance of what was happening to newly arrived immigrants who were unfamiliar with American history or culture. They also played a central role in the social life of Irish migrants and provided the comfort that came from knowing that, though they may have been far from home, they were not alone. Taking a long view through the prism of individual newspapers, editors, and journalists, the authors in this volume examine the emergence of the Irish American diaspora press and its profound contribution to the lives of Irish Americans over the course of the last two centuries.
Author : David Dobson
Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Company
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010-02
Category : Canada
ISBN : 0806353937
Emigration from Ireland to the Americas started in earnest during the early 18th century. In 1718 the first successful emigration from Ireland to New England occurred, laying the foundation for the large-scale settlement of colonial America by the "Scots-Irish." This work is the seventh installment (and the fourth volume) in a series compiled by Mr. David Dobson that documents the departure of thousands of individuals who left Ireland for the promise of the New World between roughly 1670 and 1830. As many as half of the immigrants referred to here disembarked at Canadian ports in Ontario, while most of the rest entered North America through New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina. Part Seven is based mainly on archival sources in Canada, Denmark, England, Ireland, Scotland, and the U.S., together with contemporary newspapers and journals, a few published records, and some gravestone inscriptions from both sides of the Atlantic. In the majority of cases, Mr. Dobson's transcriptions provide some or all of the following: name of passenger, date of birth, name of ship, occupation in Ireland, reason for emigration, and, sometimes, place of origin in Ireland, place of disembarkation in the New World, date of arrival, number of persons in the household, and the source of the information. Here is an entry that is typical of those found in the volume: LITTLEWOOD, ANN, from Drummond, parish of Tamlaght Finlaggan, emigrated from Londonderry to St. John, New Brunswick, on the 196 ton brig Ambassador in April 1834 [RIA].
Author : Thomas D'Arcy McGee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1851
Category : Irish
ISBN : IND:30000035081151
Author : David Dobson
Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Com
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Canada
ISBN : 9780806352169
In 1715 and again in 1745, a significant number of rebellious Scottish Jacobites could be found in the North East, an area dominated by Episcopalian landowners allied to the House of Stuart. This work identifies 2,000 North East Jacobites of 1715 and 1745, any number of whom either fled to France or were forcibly transported to the New World (to Maryland and Virginia, in particular). While the details vary, the biographical notices, in the aggregate, mention the individual's dates of birth and death, the names or number of his family members, his town of origin, where he participated in the rebellion, and what became of him after the insurrection was put down (capture, imprisonment, execution, transportation, or flight). All in all, this is an important effort at historical preservation and a source of potential clues on eighteenth-century Scottish forebears.