The Shamrock and the Lily

Over the past two and a half decades, the trends in Irish American studies have broadened our understanding of the parameters of Irish immigration to the United States and the creation of Irish America. Beginning with the pathbreaking studies of such pioneers as Arnold Schrier and continuing with the breakthrough studies of the 1980s that examined the complexities of the Irish and American experiences of immigrants, both male and female, our knowledge of the breadth and depth of Irish America is now considerably more refined and expansive. In more recent years, further study has shown the importance of regional variation among the Irish in America, as well as Irish America's influence on Irish as well as American history. Mary C. Kelly's study of the Irish in New York augments the growing body of work assessing the role of the Irish in America's leading city and in the United States as a whole. Kelly's work also adds to a growing body of regional studies of the Irish in America and demonstrates the importance of the transatlantic ties between Ireland and Irish America in a crucial era of state building on both sides of the ocean. The Irish, like the English, Africans, and Spanish, were indeed among the founders of the novel cultural mix that created the United States, and, as Kelly's book shows, the New York Irish helped transform American as well as Irish history in the process

Archaeology · Economic history · Expansive · Genealogy · Immigration · Irish · State (computer science · History · Irish and British Studies

• A ‘sentinel(s) of our liberties’

  Mary C Kelly•Irish Studies Review•2010

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• The Two Finest Nations in the World”

  Judah Bernstein•Journal of American Ethnic History•2017

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