On every tide the making and remaking of the Irish world
"When many think of Irish emigration, they think of potato blight and the Great Famine of the 1840s, which caused so many to flee Ireland for the U.S. But the real history of the Irish diaspora is much longer, more complicated, and more global. Starting in the 17th century, Irish clerics, merce...
| Main Author: | Connolly, Sean, 1951- (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Basic Books, Hachette Book Group,
2022.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Diaspora: Ireland and the world
- The beginning of mass migration
- Flight from famine
- Castle garden and beyond: emigration to the United States in the post-famine years
- Soldiers and citizens: nativism, civil war an the quest for acceptance
- Beneath the Southern Cross: Australia and New Zealand
- The making of Irish America
- The politics of Irish America
- The other America
- An Irish world
- War and revolution
- In the melting pot
- From Tammany to Camelot
- 'We've married Italian girls and moved to the suburbs': Irish identities in a changing world
- A last hurrah? The United States and the Northern Ireland conflict
- Global Ireland reimagined.