Mary Kelly

Ireland's Great Famine in Irish-American History

Enshrining a Fateful Memory

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 471g
• ISBN-13: 9781442277809
• ISBN-10: 1442277807
• Artikelnr.: 45641896

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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