Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction Bryan Albin Giemza 3

I Questions of Historical Definition

Chapter 1 "A Lengthening Chain in the Shape of Memories" The Irish and Southern Culture William R. Ferris 19

Chapter 2 After Strange Kin Further Reflections on the Relations between Ireland and the American South Kieran Quinlan 36

Chapter 3 Irish Migration to the Colonial South A Plea for a Forgotten Topic Patrick Griffin 51

II Manipulating Culture: Influence, Reconsidered

Chapter 4 Tara, the O'Haras, and the Irish Gone with the Wind Geraldine Higgins 77

Chapter 5 Transatlantic Rites of Passage in the Friendship and Fiction of Eudora Welty and Elizabeth Bowen Kathryn Stelmach Artuso 92

Chapter 6 Shared Traditions Irish and Appalachian Ballads and Whiskey Songs Emily Kader 6

Chapter 7 Blacks and Celts on the Riverine Frontiers The Roots of American Popular Music Christopher J. Smith 140

III Ideology and Ambivalence

Chapter 8 Another "Lost Cause" The Irish in the South Remember the Confederacy David T. Gleeson 163

Chapter 9 On the Uses of Slavery The Irish in the South and Civil War Rhetoric Bryan Albin Giemza 183

Coda: Smoke 'n' Guns A Preface to a Poem about Marginal Souths, and Then the Poem Conor O'Callaghan 204

Contributors 212

Index 216