New world Irish Notes on one hundred years of lives and letters in American culture /

The book concerns the new World Irish, tracing the developing profile of the Irish in America from the Famine forward. The studies draw their material from roughly a one-hundred-year arc of Irish presence and relevance in American life and they would serve as American as well as Irish-American studi...

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Main Authors: Morgan, Jack.
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Literature type: Electronic Software eBook
Language: English
Series: New directions in Irish & Irish American literature
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Online Access: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137001269
Summary: The book concerns the new World Irish, tracing the developing profile of the Irish in America from the Famine forward. The studies draw their material from roughly a one-hundred-year arc of Irish presence and relevance in American life and they would serve as American as well as Irish-American studies.
Item Description: Electronic book text.
Epublication based on: 9780230116962, 2011.
Carrier Form: 296 p.
ISBN: 9780230116962
9781137001269 :
1137001267 :
CLC: K712.8
Contents: Among Cromwell's Children: The Irish in Yankee New England Requiem for the St. John: Thoreau's 'The Shipwreck' as Irish Famine Narrative Blighted Prospects: Irish Historical Haunting in America Fair and Funeral: Henry O'Clarence McCarthy and the American Fenian Years Broom and Bridget: The Irish Servant and New England Households Harold Frederic, The Irish, and The Damnation of Theron Ware The Liffey to the Red River: Demented Mentors in Scott Fitzgerald's "Absolution" and Joyce's 'The Sisters' John Ford, the Irish, and His Cavalry Trilogy Jack Conroy, the Irish-American Left, and the Radical Irish Legacy Dublin to Bodega Bay: The Dark Side of Alfred Hitchcock's Juno and the Paycock 'Missouri Sequence': Brian Coffey's St. Louis Years Migration and Memory: Irish Poetry in the U.S. The Celtic Carnivalesque and Muriel Rukeyser's Irish Journey of Passion and Transformation 'He's Irish, and He Broods Easy' - John McNulty and the Irish Cohort at The New Yorker.