Irish-American Experience in New Jersey and Metropolitan New York

Cultural Identity, Hybridity, and Commemoration

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

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This book is a collection of nine essays exploring the Irish-American experience in the New Jersey and New York metropolitan area, both historically and today. The essays place the local Irish-American experience in the wider context of immigration studies, assimilation, and historical theory. Using case studies, interviews, scholarly research in primary historical documents and theory, and first-hand experience, the authors delve into what it has meant, and means, to be Irish American in the New Jersey and New York area, projecting what this ethnic identity will signify in years to come. Representing a variety of scholarly and professional disciplines, from archivists; to historians; to lawyers; to scholars of literature and theology; the authors share their own unique perspectives on the significance of the contributions of Irish-Americans to American life in various arenas. Each chapter is interdisciplinary, revealing the interconnections among cultural history, biography, contemporary events, and literary appreciation. It is through these intersections of disciplines, of past and present, of individual and community, that we can best analyze and appreciate the ways that Irish-Americans have shaped life in the New Jersey/New York area over the past two centuries.

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Utgivningsdatum:2015-11-09
Mått:150 x 230 x 15 mm
Vikt:331 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:214
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781498520522

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Maura Grace Harrington is an instructor in the English Department at Seton Hall University. Her articles have appeared in many journals including Yeats Eliot Review, Edgar Allan Poe Review, South Carolina Review, and Early Modern Literary Studies.Marta M. Deyrup is professor/librarian I at Seton Hall University and served for six years as the university’s codirector of women and gender studies. She is the editor of Digital Scholarship and the East-Central European Collections of the New York Public Library Research Libraries and the author of The Vita Constantini as Literary and Linguistic Construct for the Early Slavs.

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This collection offers new insight into the experience of the Irish in New Jersey. The essays remind us of the Irish contribution to the state's history, culture, and politics. You'll learn something new on every page.

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Foreword: Maura Grace Harrington and Marta M. Deyrup Introduction: Dermot QuinnPart I: Irish Americans in the Newark AreaChapter 1: The Irish in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark—Augustine J. Curley, O.S.B.Chapter 2: "Keeping the Tradition Alive"—William B. Rogers and Nicole AndersonChapter 3: Perspectives on the Easter Rising—Maura Grace HarringtonPart II: Arriving and ThrivingChapter 4: Irish Immigration to the United States in the 20th Century—Linda Dowling Almeida Chapter 5: American Irish in Service to Community & Country: A Vocational & New Jersey Perspective—Alan DelozierChapter 6: An Irish-American Politician: Governor Richard Hughes—John B. WefingChapter 7: The Writing Irish—Ray O’Hanlon Part III: The Greater New York/New Jersey RegionChapter 8: Music in the Mountains: The Irish Catskills and Traditional Music—Brendan DolanChapter 9: “With Pick and Shovel”: Commemorating the Workers Who Died Building the Delaware and Raritan Canal, 1830-1834—Paul Ferris