New perspectives on the Irish diaspora /
edited by Charles Fanning.
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| In collection: | Stephen Griffin Collection |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published / Created: |
Carbondale :
Southern Illinois University Press,
c2000.
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| Notes: | Dust jacket available. See entry for [Miscellaneous dust jackets removed from 2A and Stephen Griffin Collection items] in the NLI catalogue. Includes bibliographical references and index. Physical description: xii, 329 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. more |
| ISBN: | 0809323435 (cloth : alk. paper) 0809323443 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
Table of Contents:
Pt. 1. Imagining Irish America. Diaspora comparisons and Irish-American uniqueness / Lawrence J. McCaffrey ; Witnessing two worlds: poems / Eamonn Wall ; That special place: poems and stories from Irish America / Terence Winch ; Joseph Mitchell's Irish imagination / James Silas Rogers
Pt. 2. New perspectives on pre-famine immigration. From Ulster to Delaware: two poems by James Orr about an eighteenth-century emigrant voyage / Andrew Carpenter ; "Scotch-Irish" myths and "Irish" identities in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century America / Kerby A. Miller ; The "second colonization of New England" revisited: Irish immigration before the famine / Edward J. O'Day
Pt. 3. New sources for diaspora studies. Rites de passage: rituals of separation in Irish oral tradition / Grace Neville ; The Reynolds letters: sources for understanding the Irish emigrant experience in America and England, 1865-1934 / Lawrence W. McBride ; Bridget and Biddy: images of the Irish servant girl in Puck cartoons, 1880-1890 / Maureen Murphy ; "Slide, Kelly, slide": the Irish in American baseball / Richard F. Peterson
Pt. 4. New perspectives on Irish diasporic communities. The Irish of Chicago's Hull-House neighborhood / Ellen Skerrett ; Epidemics, influenza, and the Irish: Norwood, Massachusetts, in 1918 / Patricia J. Fanning ; The last word: reflections on Angela's ashes / George O'Brien
Pt. 5. Looking at fiction of the diaspora. Yank outsiders: Irish Americans in Gaelic fiction and drama of the Irish Free State, 1922-1939 / Philip O'Leary ; Donn Byrne: bard of Armagh / Ron Ebest ; Winds blowing from a million directions: Colum McCann's Songdogs / Eamonn Wall ; Ireland as source-country in New Zealand fiction: Dan Davin and Maurice Duggan / Charles Fanning.
Pt. 1. Imagining Irish America. Diaspora comparisons and Irish-American uniqueness / Lawrence J. McCaffrey ; Witnessing two worlds: poems / Eamonn Wall ; That special place: poems and stories from Irish America / Terence Winch ; Joseph Mitchell's Irish imagination / James Silas Rogers
Pt. 2. New perspectives on pre-famine immigration. From Ulster to Delaware: two poems by James Orr about an eighteenth-century emigrant voyage / Andrew Carpenter ; "Scotch-Irish" myths and "Irish" identities in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century America / Kerby A. Miller ; The "second colonization of New England" revisited: Irish immigration before the famine / Edward J. O'Day
Pt. 3. New sources for diaspora studies. Rites de passage: rituals of separation in Irish oral tradition / Grace Neville ; The Reynolds letters: sources for understanding the Irish emigrant experience in America and England, 1865-1934 / Lawrence W. McBride ; Bridget and Biddy: images of the Irish servant girl in Puck cartoons, 1880-1890 / Maureen Murphy ; "Slide, Kelly, slide": the Irish in American baseball / Richard F. Peterson
Pt. 4. New perspectives on Irish diasporic communities. The Irish of Chicago's Hull-House neighborhood / Ellen Skerrett ; Epidemics, influenza, and the Irish: Norwood, Massachusetts, in 1918 / Patricia J. Fanning ; The last word: reflections on Angela's ashes / George O'Brien
Pt. 5. Looking at fiction of the diaspora. Yank outsiders: Irish Americans in Gaelic fiction and drama of the Irish Free State, 1922-1939 / Philip O'Leary ; Donn Byrne: bard of Armagh / Ron Ebest ; Winds blowing from a million directions: Colum McCann's Songdogs / Eamonn Wall ; Ireland as source-country in New Zealand fiction: Dan Davin and Maurice Duggan / Charles Fanning.