Internal ethnic friction

Orange and green in nineteenth‐century New York, 1868–1872

Bibliographic Data

ID11445133
AuthorsChristopher D McGlmpsey (Queen's University Belfast, corresponding author)
Year1982
Volume1
Issue1
Pages39-59
Publication date1982-03-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueImmigrants & Minorities (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0261-9288 • E-ISSN: 1744-0521
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/02619288.1982.9974513
OpenAlexW2069870128
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited12

The presence of large numbers of Protestants within the nineteenth century Irish exodus to the USA ensured that the integrity of the Orange/Green dispute continued in the adopted homeland. The Catholic majority amongst Irish immigrants was nevertheless a minority within Protestant American society. The struggle between Orange and Green in New York thus gave each faction both a majority and a minority status. Fear of Catholicism within America meant that the commonality between Irish Orangemen and native born Protestants was a classic example of an internal ethnic dispute having a relevance to the whole society. This common Protestantism was able to straddle, to an extent, the ethnic barrier. The clash between Fenians and Orangemen in New York thus gained an inflated significance for both state and national politics

Economic history · Ethnic group · Homeland · Immigration · Irish · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Protestantism · Sociology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · History · Irish and British Studies · Law · Philosophy · Religious studies · Religious Studies

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