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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Irish-American"”.
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Regular Wild Irish: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity in Irish American Fiction
Regular Wild Irish: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity in Irish American Fiction examines the ways in which Irish American writers construct "Irishness" in fictional texts which borrow from and respond to literary and cultural discourses in the United States and Ireland in the nineteenth and early …
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The Ladies’ Land League and Irish-American Identity in the American South
… and was a historically important instance of Irish women’s political action. Anna Parnell and others galvanized women in both Ireland and the United States over land reform issues. This paper examines the evidence of the Ladies’ Land League actions in the historic Georgia newspapers in an …
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Revolutionary Nationalism, Imperialism and Anti-Slavery in the Trans-National Irish-American Press, 1840-1865
This dissertation is a synoptic history of the Irish-American press in the antebellum and Civil War era, the role of Irish-American newspaper editors in fostering Irish-American political identity, and Irish-American reporting on European imperialism and revolutionary nationalism. This thesis …
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It's an Irish Lullaby: One Story of Hyphenated American Culture
… project was to come to a clear understanding of Irish-American culture--and how that culture expresses itself in individuals. The text considers the role of myth, religion, language, tradition, stereotypes and to a lesser degree gender in the molding of character. Although autobiographical in …
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Irish return migration from America at the turn of the nineteenth century: 1890-1920
… but I'm proud to be here’. With these words, Irish- American John Fitzgerald Kennedy made a return visit to his great-grandfather’s home in Dunganstown, New Ross, County Wexford in July 1963. As an Irish- American experiencing my own return in 2000, I was asked ‘How long have ye been gone?’, …
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The Irish Republicanism of Peter C. Yorke of San Francisco 1916-1922
… interest in the United States by many Americans of Irish birth and descent, particularly during the critical period from 1916 to 1922. It is the purpose of this paper to examine the career of an Irish-American priest, Father Peter Christopher Yorke, and to show his influence on the …
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James Cagney, Outside/inside: Assimilation of a New York City star in 1930s Hollywood
… that Cagney represents an inbetween type. His Irish-American catholicism marks him as subordinate to the W.A.S.P. mainstream and simultaneously positions him as a figure of influence over other New York ethnic newcomers (Italians, Jews, Poles, and Slavs). To star studies I combine close …
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An Unlikely Champion: Congressman Mario Biaggi and the Beginnings of a Negotiated Settlement in Northern Ireland
… in Northern Ireland. Biaggi, and several Irish/American groups, took these comments as an opening to challenge British policies in Northern Ireland. To aid this effort Biaggi in 1977 formed the Ad Hoc Congressional Committee for Irish Affairs, focusing on human rights in Northern Ireland. …
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The development of the Mexican petroleum industry to 1914
… rapid development was primarily accomplished by American and British entrepeneurs operating in a favorable economic and political climate until 1914 when revolutionary forces triumphed in Mexico and established new laws which the foreign dominated oil companies viewed as discriminatory and …
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“Everything and Nothing”: Exhibiting Irishness at the Chicago World Fair of 1893
… to investigate the overlapping productions of Irish identity at the Irish Villages of the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893. Conceptualized and designed by two British philanthropists and businesswomen, the Irish Villages presented an Irishness shaped by Ireland’s long history of colonial rule. For …
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Cinema's Green is Gold: The Commodification of Irishness in Film
… thesis is concerned with the manners in which Irishness has become highly desirable and commodified, and the manifestations that commodification has taken in Irish film. In recognition that the Irish American diaspora holds a special regard for Irishness, I will explore reasons for the allure …
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Cinema's Green is Gold: The Commodification of Irishness in Film
… thesis is concerned with the manners in which Irishness has become highly desirable and commodified, and the manifestations that commodification has taken in Irish film. In recognition that the Irish American diaspora holds a special regard for Irishness, I will explore reasons for the allure …
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Constructions of Female Identities in Mary Gordon's The Other Side and Maureen Howard's Before My Time
… of a group of women identified by their Irish origin and the influence of the Catholic church which, on the one hand, positions them in an ethnic niche within mainstream American culture but on the other hand, works towards presenting this experience as typical for the integration of …
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Irish women in the United States 1870-1914 : a case study: factory workers
… dramatic environmental and occupational change: Irish women immigrants employed in factories in the United States, 1870-1914.</p><p>Did these Irish immigrant women who labored in factories retain their traditional set of personal values once they reached the highly industrial urban scene of the …
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A Social History of the Brooklyn Irish, 1850-1900
A full understanding of nineteenth century Irish America requires close examination of emigration as well as immigration. Knowledge of Irish pre-emigration experiences is a key to making sense of their post-emigration lives. This work analyzes the regional origins, the migration and settlement …