The Routledge History of Irish America
Cian T McMahon editor Kathleen P Costello-Sullivan editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Published:23rd Jul '24
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This volume gathers over 40 world-class scholars to explore the dynamics that have shaped the Irish experience in America from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries.
From the early 1600s to the present, over 10 million Irish people emigrated to various points around the globe. Of them, more than six million settled in what we now call the United States of America. Some were emigrants, some were exiles, and some were refugees—but they all brought with them habits, ideas, and beliefs from Ireland, which played a role in shaping their new home. Organized chronologically, the chapters in this volume offer a cogent blend of historical perspectives from the pens of some of the world’s leading scholars. Each section explores multiple themes including gender, race, identity, class, work, religion, and politics. This book also offers essays that examine the literary and/or artistic production of each era. These studies investigate not only how Irish America saw itself or, in turn, was seen, but also how the historical moment influenced cultural representation. It demonstrates the ways in which Irish Americans have connected with other groups, such as African Americans and Native Americans, and sets “Irish America” in the context of the global Irish diaspora.
This book will be of value to undergraduate and graduate students, as well as instructors and scholars interested in American History, Immigration History, Irish Studies, and Ethnic Studies more broadly.
“Ranging from the colonial era to the present day and addressing a remarkably wide range of themes—including migration, labor, race, gender, sexuality, religion, politics, nationalism, literature, language, music, and the environment—this Routledge History will be an invaluable resource for all readers interested in Irish-American history and culture.”
Kevin Kenny, New York University
"This volume represents a spectacular achievement that will appeal to scholars, students, and general readers. Innovative and wide-ranging, it beautifully illustrates the diversity and complexity of Irish-American culture and history from the earliest waves of migration up to the present time."
Marjorie Howes, Boston College
“Carefully structured into seven well-defined sections and written by both rising stars and leading scholars in the field, The Routledge History of Irish America is a breathtakingly wide-ranging exploration of the lives, activities, and reception of Irish America across the centuries. A must for students and scholars alike.”
Donald M. MacRaild, London Metropolitan University and Honorary Fellow at Ulster and Edinburgh universities
"[This book] implicitly questions what “Irish America” is, positing it, as the editors have it in their introduction, as a shifting and sometimes contradictory “social construct”. It does this so successfully that it surely can never again be reduced to that old singular identity. Perhaps the best tribute one can give this consistently vigorous and critically minded history is that it does not feel like the story of a phenomenon that is now in the past."
Fintan O'Toole, review in The Irish Times, November 16, 2024
ISBN: 9781032219219
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 453g
570 pages