""This penetrating study examines how these filmmakers confronted their cultural heritage and used it as a counterpoint to their depiction of mainstream America.""--American CinematographerIn this unique film history, Lee Lourdeaux traces the impact of Irish and Italian cultures…
Argues that there are fundamental social and economic similarities between the two groups; but that taboos against intermarriage, segregated schools and the nature of Protestant and Catholic religious beliefs keep the Irish at loggerheads.
This title analyzes the long history of imagined and real relationships between the Irish and African-Americans. Onkey examines how Irish and Irish-American identity is often constructed through or against African-Americans, mapping this through the work of writers, playwrights,…
Why did many Irish Americans, who did not have a direct connection to slavery, choose to fight for the Confederacy? This perplexing question is at the heart of David T. Gleeson's sweeping analysis of the Irish in the Confederate States of America. Taking a broad view of the subj…
"This book shows how the Irish identity was cultivated in America to support independent nationhood and citizenship for Ireland. It emphasizes how institutions, such as clubs and societies, coordinated to construct a nationalist identity"--