Ireland's Great Famine in Irish-American History: Enshrining a Fateful Memory
Ireland’s Great Famine in Irish-American History: Enshrining a Fateful Memory offers a new, concise interpretation of the history of the Irish in America. Author and distinguished professor Mary Kelly’s book is the first synthesized volume to track Ireland’s Great Famine within America’s immigrant history, and to consider the impact of the Famine on Irish ethnic identity between the mid-1800s and the end of the twentieth century. Moving beyond traditional emphases on Irish-American cornerstones such as church, party, and education, the book maps the Famine’s legacy over a century and a half of settlement and assimilation. This is the first attempt to contextualize a painful memory that has endured fitfully, and unquestionably, throughout Irish-American historical experience.
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Ireland's Great Famine in Irish-American History: Enshrining a Fateful Memory
Ireland’s Great Famine in Irish-American History: Enshrining a Fateful Memory offers a new, concise interpretation of the history of the Irish in America. Author and distinguished professor Mary Kelly’s book is the first synthesized volume to track Ireland’s Great Famine within America’s immigrant history, and to consider the impact of the Famine on Irish ethnic identity between the mid-1800s and the end of the twentieth century. Moving beyond traditional emphases on Irish-American cornerstones such as church, party, and education, the book maps the Famine’s legacy over a century and a half of settlement and assimilation. This is the first attempt to contextualize a painful memory that has endured fitfully, and unquestionably, throughout Irish-American historical experience.
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Ireland's Great Famine in Irish-American History: Enshrining a Fateful Memory

Ireland's Great Famine in Irish-American History: Enshrining a Fateful Memory

by Mary Kelly
Ireland's Great Famine in Irish-American History: Enshrining a Fateful Memory

Ireland's Great Famine in Irish-American History: Enshrining a Fateful Memory

by Mary Kelly

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Ireland’s Great Famine in Irish-American History: Enshrining a Fateful Memory offers a new, concise interpretation of the history of the Irish in America. Author and distinguished professor Mary Kelly’s book is the first synthesized volume to track Ireland’s Great Famine within America’s immigrant history, and to consider the impact of the Famine on Irish ethnic identity between the mid-1800s and the end of the twentieth century. Moving beyond traditional emphases on Irish-American cornerstones such as church, party, and education, the book maps the Famine’s legacy over a century and a half of settlement and assimilation. This is the first attempt to contextualize a painful memory that has endured fitfully, and unquestionably, throughout Irish-American historical experience.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781442226081
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date: 11/18/2013
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 260
File size: 1 MB

About the Author

Mary C. Kelly is a professor of Modern Irish and American Histories at Franklin Pierce University. She is the author of The Shamrock and the Lily: The New York Irish and the Creation of a Transatlantic Identity (Peter Lang Publishing, 2005).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Irish Hunger: Irish-American Crucible

1 Floodtide: Framing Famine Memory between 1845 and 1900
2 Latent Memory: Constructing Irish-American Identity in the early 1900s
3 Ethnic Progression: Selective Memory by the mid-1900s
4 “Where Past and Present Mingle”: Roadways to Remembrance
5 Long Threatening: From Confrontation to Commemoration in the 1990s

Epilogue: At the End of the Day
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
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