Becoming Irish American : the making and remaking of a people from Roanoke to JFK / Timothy J. Meagher.

"As millions of Irish immigrants and their descendants created community in the United States over the centuries, they neither remained Irish nor simply became American. Instead, they created a culture and defined an identity that was unique to their circumstances, a new people that they would conti...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Meagher, Timothy J. (Author)
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2023]
Subjects:
Irish Americans > History > 17th century.
Irish Americans > History > 18th century.
Irish Americans > History > 19th century.
Irish Americans > History > 20th century.
Physical Description:ix, 327 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Variant Title:
Making and remaking of a people from Roanoke to JFK
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Old Ireland : from its beginnings to the eighteenth century
  • Irish immigration in the colonial era : 1585-1775
  • Irish America in the age of revolution : 1775-1815
  • Irish America in transition : 1815-1845
  • The famine and Irish immigrants in America : 1845-1880
  • The famine Irish American community in an America in crisis : 1845-1880
  • A new generation and new immigrants in turn-of-the-century America : 1880-1928
  • Searching for their place at the end of the nineteenth century : the Irish American community, 1880-1908
  • Finding their place : the Irish American community, 1900-1928
  • Rising power : Irish Americans in New Deal America, 1928-1939
  • The old order at high tide : Irish America in World War II and postwar America, 1940-1960
  • Epilogue and conclusion.