..., the work presents for the first time an account of the anti-Treaty Irish Republican Army (IRA) veterans who emigrated to the United States after the Irish Civil War. Upon their settlement in Irish-American communities, these republicans directly influenced and guided the US-based militant republican...

...This chapter revisits the figure of the “nun” in Freeman’s much-debated “A New England Nun” by reading the story in the context of contemporary Irish American fiction. The essay juxtaposes the idealized image of the nun as found in Irish American fiction, to which Freeman partially subscribes...

...This chapter focuses on Irish American nationalists' dynamite terrorism campaign against British cities in the 1880s. Two separate dynamite campaigns were launched during the early 1880s. One was under the direction of Fenian exile Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa; the other was organized...

... the republican struggle in Ireland. This chapter considers the establishment of Irish-American support for Irish republicans during the early 1970s and how this aspect of the republican struggle impacted on the recent split in the movement. United States of America USA Anglo Irish Treaty 1921 Clan na Gael De...

.... The evolution of his social thought from 1789 to 1998 also prefigures the fault lines of race, class, and gender that would mark later Irish American nationalism and this is examined as well. Over the course of his time in America and France, Tone continued to follow events in Ireland, particularly...

... Brothers, Ann Miller, Mable Lee, and Eleanor Powell; and at its varying degrees of influence on such Irish American tap dancers as James Cagney, Ray Bolger, George Murphy, Donald O’Connor, and Gene Kelly, whose heritage in Irish-stepping styles had been integrated into a modern American style of jazz...

... John Kelly M J O’Brien William Clan na Gael Joyce Charles Joyce Stanislaus Townshend Charles Irish American Historical Society Mangan James Clarence Roberts William B Carroll F M O’Day Alan Richards Grant Ward Alan Anderson Stuart Costello Peter Nolan Emer Abbey Theatre Civil War...

... the Dáil mission vied with the Irish-American leadership for control of Irish nationalist fundraising in America. In particular, it follows the struggle between John Devoy and Justice Daniel Cohalan of the Friends of Irish Freedom on one hand, and Éamon de Valera and the Dáil mission to America...

... to nineteenth-century Irish-American fundraising. The prevalence of non-Irish supporters of the bond drive is also investigated, including Jewish-Americans, African-Americans, Chinese-Americans, and Americans born elsewhere in Europe. As noted above, the lower the Irish-born population in a state...

... in Northern Ireland. Irish American nationalism is seen as an example of a larger phenomenon, sometimes called diasporic or “long-distance” nationalism. Into the narrative are woven a number of the analytical perspectives that have recently transformed the study of nationalism, including its “imagined...

... and Hart. His arranger Mike Lake, for example, wrote about what a great boss he was and that those who worked for Cohan usually idolized him. Craft devotes Chapter 4 to Cohan s evolution in the late 1910s and 1920s from hyper-p atriotism to Irish American pride with a spate of Irish American t hemed...

...This chapter examines ethnicity, its origins, development, and consequences, with specific reference to Irish immigration and Irish America. It emphasizes class differences among Irish immigrants to explain both the dynamics of immigration and the resulting Irish-American culture. By 1900, Irish...

... The Melting Pot Zangwill melting pot narrative nativism Zangwill Israel Americanization anti Semitism Ford Henry intermarriage Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America MPPDA Irish immigrants Meagher Timothy Abie’s Irish Rose Nichols Nichols Anne Irish Americans Jewish Americans...

... Chicago’s South Side comprised diverse ethnic diasporas of Italian, Polish, Jewish, Greek, Czech, West Indian, and Irish Americans, as well as African Americans from the South and rural Midwest, all vying for limited employment, resources, and space in ethnically zoned covenants, these neighborhoods formed...

...This article aims to provide a brief recent history of Irish-American literary studies, then focuses on how Irish-American poetics might be employed as an evaluative critical lens through which to regard Irish, American, and transnational exchange. It discusses whether Irish-American poetics can...

... Americans sought to build than they had been in the middle decades of the nineteenth century. Ironically, Irish American activism had been a significant factor in bringing about this change. Anglo Saxonism arbitration Cleveland Grover Philippines Roosevelt Theodore Venezuelan boundary dispute Hay John...

...This introductory chapter offers a deep glimpse into the development of Irish nationalism in Irish-American communities from the end of the eighteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth century. Using a passage from Wolfe Tone as an opening, the section charts how exiled Irish nationalists...

... Mitchell Reid Deutsch Amerikanische Monatshefte Kapp Friedrich Lexow Friedrich German-American Irish-American Assimilation Chancellorsville Ethnicity Nativism Pluralism Ever since the publication of Ella Lonn's landmark studies of northern and southern ethnic soldiers, Foreigners...

..., James, Faulkner, and Welty, the violence of the colonial Irish motherland is visited upon marginalized Americans, including, sometimes, other Irish groupings. History is Gothic in Irish-American narrative because the undead Irish past replays within America’s contexts of race. Black Irish mixed race...

...This chapter examines the initial motivations behind Irish American Catholics' enlistments in the early years of the war; how their views of the conflict, as well as the opinions of their communities, changed as the war evolved; and how this influenced the memory of Irish American volunteerism...