Irish America

Bibliographic Data

ID8097726
AuthorsReginald Byron (corresponding author)
Year1999
Pages317
Publication date1999-11-11
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueIrish America (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University PressOxford (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/oso/9780198233565.001.0001
OpenAlexW4388376960
Open LibraryOL34955M
ISBN9780198233565
LanguageEN
Citations received17

Few writers on the Irish in America have looked beyond the nineteenth-century ethnic enclaves of New York, Boston, Philadelphia, or Chicago, or have asked how the notion of an Irish-American ethnic identity in contemporary America can be reconciled with five, six, or seven generations of intermarriage and assimilation over the last century and a half. This study, based on interviews with 500 people of Irish ancestry in Albany, New York, aims to discover in what senses and in what degrees the present-day descendants of nineteenth-century Irish immigrants possess distinctive social practices and ways of seeing the world, and raises questions about the social conditions in which ideas of Irishness have been created and re-created

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Assimilation (phonology · Ethnic group · Ethnology · Genealogy · Identity (music · Immigration · Irish · Linguistics · Sociology · Anthropology · Gender Studies · History · Irish and British Studies · Cultural assimilation · Ethnic identity · Ethnic relations · Irish Americans · Social life and customs · united states

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