Format:
Online-Ressource (215 p)
ISBN:
9780739187814
Content:
〈span〉〈span〉Focusing on the local New Jersey/New York Irish-American experience, this interdisciplinary book is a case study in what Irish-Americans have contributed to public and cultural life in the United States: how they have retained elements of Irish culture and invented elements of their own ethnic American culture. Students of ethnicity will find, in this book, strong theoretical underpinnings for enlightening discussions of cultural identity, hybridity, and commemoration.〈/span〉〈/span〉
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Description based upon print version of record
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Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I: Irish Americans in the Newark Area; Chapter One: The Irish in the Church of Newark; Chapter Two: "Keeping the Tradition Alive"; Chapter Three: Perspectives on the Easter Rising; II: Arriving and Thriving; Chapter Four: Irish Immigration to the United States in the Twentieth Century; Chapter Five: American Irish in Service to Community & Country; Chapter Six: An Irish American Politician; Chapter Seven: The Writing Irish; III: The Greater New York/New Jersey Region; Chapter Eight: Music in the Mountains; Chapter Nine: "With Pick and Shovel"
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About the EditorsAbout the Contributors; Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780739187821
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780739187814
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The Irish-American Experience in New Jersey and Metropolitan New York : Cultural Identity, Hybridity, and Commemoration
Language:
English
Keywords:
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