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| Author | : Ronald H. Bayor |
| Publisher | : JHU Press |
| Total Pages | : 772 |
| Release | : 1997-09-30 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780801857645 |
As one of the country's oldest ethnic groups, the Irish have played a vital part in its history. New York has been both port of entry and home to the Irish for three centuries. This joint project of the Irish Institute and the New York Irish History Roundtable offers a fresh perspective on an immigrant people's encounter with the famed metropolis. 37 illustrations.
| Author | : Terry Golway |
| Publisher | : Merrion Press |
| Total Pages | : 239 |
| Release | : 2018-10-22 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 178855051X |
New York University's Glucksman Ireland House opened a quarter-century ago to foster the study of Ireland and Irish America, and since then has led and witnessed tremendous changes in Irish and Irish-American culture. Alice McDermott writes about her son's Irish awakening; Colum McCann's Joycean essay is a brilliant call to action in defence of immigrants and social justice; Colm Tóibín's first visit to New York coincided with the first St Patrick's Day parade led by a woman; Dan Barry reflects on Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes; and a new poem by Seamus Heaney written not long before his death. Through deeply personal essays that reflect on their own experience, research and art, some of the best-known Irish writers on both sides of the Atlantic commemorate the House's anniversary by examining what has changed, and what has not, in Irish and Irish-American culture, art, identity, and politics since 1993.
| Author | : Dermot McEvoy |
| Publisher | : Skyhorse |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2020-03-17 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9781510736481 |
As they entered their 600th year of British occupation, the Irish looked to America. By the 1840s, America was the oasis that the Irish sought during a decade of both famine and revolution, and New York City was the main destination. The city would never be the same. Refugees of the famine found leadership in Archbishop “Dagger” John Hughes, who built an Irish-Catholic infrastructure of churches, schools, hospitals, and orphanages that challenged the Protestant power structure of the city. Revolutionaries found a home in NYC, too: Thomas Francis Meagher would later become Lincoln’s favorite Irish war general; John Devoy and Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa continued their fight from the city after the failed Rising of 1867; two men killed in the Easter Rising, Tom Clarke and James Connolly, spent substantial time in New York. From there, the Irish rose and helped shape New York politics, labor, social activism, entertainment, and art. W. R. Grace was New York’s first Irish-Catholic mayor, followed by Tammany rogue James J. Walker, and then William O’Dwyer of County Mayo. On the labor side, Michael J. Quill, ex-IRA, of the Transport Workers of America, found his perfect foil in WASP mayor John V. Lindsay. Dorothy Day and Margaret Sanger became famed social activists. While the Irish made up much of the NYPD and FDNY, there was also the criminal element of the 1860s. The toughness of the New York underworld caught the eye of Hollywood, and James Cagney would become one of America’s favorite tough-guy movie characters. Irish gangs would be made famous in Martin Scorsese’s Gangs of New York. Today, Eugene O’Neill, Jimmy Breslin, Pete Hamill and Frank McCourt populate our literary canon. These Irish influenced every phase of American society, and their colorful stories make up Real Irish New York.
| Author | : Linda Dowling Almeida |
| Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
| Total Pages | : 226 |
| Release | : 2001-03-22 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0253108535 |
Irish Immigrants in New York City, 1945-1995 Linda Dowling Almeida The story of one of the most visible groups of immigrants in the major city of immigrants in the last half of the 20th century. "Almeida offers a dynamic portrait of Irish New York, one that keeps reinventing itself under new circumstances." —Hasia Diner, New York University "[Almeida's] close attention to changes in economics, culture, and politics on both sides of the Atlantic makes [this book] one of the more accomplished applications of the 'new social history' to a contemporary American ethnic group." —Roger Daniels, University of Cincinnati It is estimated that one in three New York City residents is an immigrant. No other American city has a population composed of so many different nationalities. Of these "foreign born," a relatively small percentage come directly from Ireland, but the Irish presence in the city—and America—is ubiquitous. In the 1990 census, Irish ancestry was claimed by over half a million New Yorkers and by 44 million nationwide. The Irish presence in popular American culture has also been highly visible. Yet for all the attention given to Irish Americans, surprisingly little has been said about post–World War II immigrants. Almeida's research takes important steps toward understanding modern Irish immigration. Comparing 1950s Irish immigrants with the "New Irish" of the 1980s, Almeida provides insights into the evolution of the Irish American identity and addresses the role of the United States and Ireland in shaping it. She finds, among other things, that social and economic progress in Ireland has heightened expectations for Irish immigrants. But at the same time they face greater challenges in gaining legal residence, a situation that has led the New Irish to reject many organizations that long supported previous generations of Irish immigrants in favor of new ones better-suited to their needs. Linda Dowling Almeida, Adjunct Professor of History at New York University, has published articles on the "New Irish" in America and is a longtime member of the New York Irish History Roundtable. She also edited Volume 8 of the journal New York Irish History. March 2001 232 pages, 6 1/8 x 9 1/4, index, append. cloth 0-253-33843-3 $35.00 s / £26.5
| Author | : Leslie Jenkins |
| Publisher | : Universe Publishing(NY) |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : Immigrants |
| ISBN | : 9780789313799 |
Irish New York explores the streets, neighborhoods, and legends of the Irish in New York City. Each chapter is filled with photographs, paintings, quotes, and ephemera that illustrate different aspects of Irish life in New York, past and present, covering such topics as the Irish immigration, fraternal groups, the St. Patrick's Day Parade, and Irish pubs and restaurants.The book is the perfect gift book and practical guide for the legions of Irish who live in New York City as well as the thousands of Irish tourists who flock to Irish cultural institutions such as St. Patrick's Cathedral, the Irish Hunger Memorial, and McSorley's Old Ale House (which has never closed, even during Prohibition). A map is provided to help navigate the many places mentioned in the book.
| Author | : Colin Broderick |
| Publisher | : Lavender Ink |
| Total Pages | : 274 |
| Release | : 2018-10-11 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 9781944884536 |
23 of today's top Irish-American authors provide personal accounts of how they found their voices in the Big Apple, and editor Colin Broderick provides background essays on Brendan Behan, Maeve Brennan, Frank McCourt, and other Irish-American writers of the past.
| Author | : Paul Moses |
| Publisher | : NYU Press |
| Total Pages | : 395 |
| Release | : 2015-07-03 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1479871303 |
They came from the poorest parts of Ireland and Italy, and met as rivals on the sidewalks of New York. In the nineteenth century and for long after, the Irish and Italians fought in the Catholic Church, on the waterfront, at construction sites, and in the streets. Then they made peace through romance, marrying each other on a large scale in the years after World War II. An Unlikely Union unfolds the dramatic story of how two of America's largest ethnic groups learned to love and laugh with each other in the wake of decades of animosity. The vibrant cast of characters features saints such as
| Author | : J.J. Lee |
| Publisher | : NYU Press |
| Total Pages | : 751 |
| Release | : 2007-03 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0814752187 |
Explores the history of the Irish in America, offering an overview of Irish history, immigration to the United States, and the transition of the Irish from the working class to all levels of society.
| Author | : Jay P. Dolan |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
| Total Pages | : 355 |
| Release | : 2010-02-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1608190102 |
Follows the Irish from their first arrival in the American colonies through the bleak days of the potato famine, the decades of ethnic prejudice and nativist discrimination, the rise of Irish political power, and on to the historic moment when John F. Kennedy was elected to the highest office in the land.
| Author | : Noel Ignatiev |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 289 |
| Release | : 2012-11-12 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1135070695 |
'...from time to time a study comes along that truly can be called ‘path breaking,’ ‘seminal,’ ‘essential,’ a ‘must read.’ How the Irish Became White is such a study.' John Bracey, W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies, University of Massachussetts, Amherst The Irish came to America in the eighteenth century, fleeing a homeland under foreign occupation and a caste system that regarded them as the lowest form of humanity. In the new country – a land of opportunity – they found a very different form of social hierarchy, one that was based on the color of a person’s skin. Noel Ignatiev’s 1995 book – the first published work of one of America’s leading and most controversial historians – tells the story of how the oppressed became the oppressors; how the new Irish immigrants achieved acceptance among an initially hostile population only by proving that they could be more brutal in their oppression of African Americans than the nativists. This is the story of How the Irish Became White.
