Making the Irish American : history and heritage of the Irish in the United States / edited by J.J. Lee and Marion R. Casey.

Contributor Lee, Joseph, 1942-

Imprint:New York : New York University Press, c2006.

Descriptionxvii, 733 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.

Note:Introduction: interpreting Irish America / J.J. Lee -- Modern Ireland: an introductory survey / Eileen Reilly -- Scots Irish or Scotch-Irish / David Noel Doyle -- Irish in North America, 1776-1845 / David Noel Doyle -- Remaking of Irish-America, 1845-1880 / David Noel Doyle -- Ulster Presbyterians and the "two traditions" in Ireland and America / Kerby A. Miller -- Religious rivalry and the making of Irish-American identity / Irene Whelan -- Address to the Ulster-Irish Society of New York, 1939 / Henry Noble MacCracken -- American-Irish nationalism / Kevin Kenny -- Refractive history: memory and the founders of the Emigrant Savings Bank / Marion R. Casey -- Ubiquitous Bridget: Irish immigrant women in domestic service in America, 1840-1930 / Margaret Lynch-Brennan -- Labor and labor organizations / Kevin Kenny -- Race, violence, and anti-Irish sentiment in the neneteenth century / Kevin Kenny -- Irish-American popular music / Mick Moloney -- Irish and vaudeville / Robert W. Snyder -- Irish traditional music in the United States / Rebecca S. Miller -- Before Riverdance: a brief history of Irish step dancing in America / Marion R. Casey -- Irish-American festivals / Mick Moloney.

Note:Irish Americans in sports: the nineteenth century / Ralph Wilcox -- Irish Americans in sports: the twentieth century / Larry McCarthy -- Irish (1963, 1970) / Daniel Patrick Moynihan -- Once we were kings (1999) / Pete Hamill -- Democracy in action (1988) / Calvin Trillin -- Irish America, 1940-2000 / Linda Dowling Almeida -- Twentieth-century American Catholicism and Irish Americans / Thomas J. Shelley -- Fireman on the stairs: communal loyalties in the making of Irish America / Timothy J. Meagher -- Tradition of Irish-American writers: the twentieth century / Danile J. Casey, Robert E. Rhodes -- Looking for Jimmy (1999) / Peter Quinn -- Future of Irish America (2000) / Peter Quinn.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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