Irish America / Edition 1

by Reginald Byron

Overview

Few writers have asked how the notion of an Irish-American ethnic identity in contemporary America can be reconciled with five, six, or seven generations of intermarriage and assimilation over the last century and a half. This study, based on interviews with 500 people of Irish ancestry, aims to discover in what senses the present-day descendants of nineteenth-century Irish immigrants possess distinctive social practices and ways of seeing the world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198233558
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	02/24/2000
Series:	Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	328
Product dimensions:	8.51(w) x 5.46(h) x 0.74(d)

About the Author

Adjunct Professor of Anthropology, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Long Island, New York
Research Professor of Anthropology, Union College, Schenectady, New York

Table of Contents

1. Prologue2. Colonists and Immigrants3. As Irish as any City in America4. The Past in the Present5. Over the Generations6. Irish-Catholic-Democrat7. The Importance of being Irish8. The Wearing of the Green9. A Socioscape of Irish AmericaBibliography