Ireland's Great Famine recasts traditional approaches to the Irish experience in America in a striking new reading of the history. This is the first compact synthesis to place Ireland's Great Famine at the heart of the modern ethnic narrative, and to explore the Famine's Irish-American legacy as a key factor in its course.
Ireland's Great Famine recasts traditional approaches to the Irish experience in America in a striking new reading of the history. This is the first compact synthesis to place Ireland's Great Famine at the heart of the modern ethnic narrative, and to explore the Famine's Irish-American legacy as a key factor in its course.
Mary C. Kelly is a professor of Modern Irish and American Histories at Franklin Pierce University. She is the author of The Shamrock and the Lily: The New York Irish and the Creation of a Transatlantic Identity (Peter Lang Publishing, 2005).
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Acknowledgments Introduction: Irish Hunger: Irish-American Crucible 1 Floodtide: Framing Famine Memory between 1845 and 1900 2 Latent Memory: Constructing Irish-American Identity in the early 1900s 3 Ethnic Progression: Selective Memory by the mid-1900s 4 "Where Past and Present Mingle": Roadways to Remembrance 5 Long Threatening: From Confrontation to Commemoration in the 1990s Epilogue: At the End of the Day Bibliography Index About the Author
Acknowledgments Introduction: Irish Hunger: Irish-American Crucible 1 Floodtide: Framing Famine Memory between 1845 and 1900 2 Latent Memory: Constructing Irish-American Identity in the early 1900s 3 Ethnic Progression: Selective Memory by the mid-1900s 4 "Where Past and Present Mingle": Roadways to Remembrance 5 Long Threatening: From Confrontation to Commemoration in the 1990s Epilogue: At the End of the Day Bibliography Index About the Author
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