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Irish Literature
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 214

Irish Literature

Irish literature's roots have been traced to the 7th-9th century. This is a rich and hardy literature starting with descriptions of the brave deeds of kings, saints and other heroes. These were followed by generous veins of religious, historical, genealogical, scientific and other works. The development of prose, poetry and drama raced along with the times. Modern, well-known Irish writers include: William Yeats, James Joyce, Sean Casey, George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde, John Synge and Samuel Beckett.

The Story of Oklahoma
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 538

The Story of Oklahoma

Describes the people and events that have shaped the state's history

Selected Writings of John V. Kelleher on Ireland a
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 316

Selected Writings of John V. Kelleher on Ireland a

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: Unknown
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  • Publisher: SIU Press

A collection of eighteen critical essays and twenty-six translations spanning the career of one of the found­ing intellects of Irish Studies, the Selected Writings of John V. Kelleher on Ireland and Irish America consists of five accessible sections. The first gathers Kelleher's essays on the most widely known Irish cultural phe­nomenon--the literary renaissance of the early twentieth century. Part two contains his judicious assessments of Irish literature in its post-Revolutionary phase. The third section includes Kelleher's in­sightful essays on the experience of the Irish in America. The fourth section contains essays that ex­amine early Irish literature and culture, opening with a benchmark essay for Irish Studies, "Early Irish His­tory and Pseudo-History," which was read at the inau­gural meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies in 1961. The collection concludes with Kelleher's translations and adaptations of poems in Old, Middle, and Modern Irish, illustrating his com­mand of the language at every stage.

My Days of Anger
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 376

My Days of Anger

The continuing saga of Danny O'Neill's struggles with harsh urban realities in early twentieth-century Chicago

Special Sorrows
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 360

Special Sorrows

Special Sorrows carefully delineates the centrality of Jewish, Polish and Irish supporters in the United States to national liberation movements abroad and details how such movements shaped immigrant life in the United States.

Rough Writing
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 255

Rough Writing

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008-11-01
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  • Publisher: NYU Press

As the United States struggled to absorb a massive influx of ethnically diverse immigrants at the turn of the twentieth century, the question of who and what an American is took on urgent intensity. It seemed more critical than ever to establish a definition by which Americanness could be established, transmitted, maintained, and judged. Americans of all stripes sought to articulate and enforce their visions of the nation’s past, present, and future; central to these attempts was President Theodore Roosevelt. Roosevelt fully recognized the narrative component of American identity, and he called upon authors of diverse European backgrounds including Israel Zangwill, Jacob Riis, Elizabeth Stern, and Finley Peter Dunne to promote the nation in popular written form. With the swell and shift in immigration, he realized that a more encompassing national literature was needed to “express and guide the soul of the nation.” Rough Writing examines the surprising place and implications of the immigrant and of ethnic writing in Roosevelt’s America and American literature.

Lineage Book
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 450

Lineage Book

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1898
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Includes inclusive "Errata for the Linage book."

New Perspectives on the Irish Diaspora
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 348

New Perspectives on the Irish Diaspora

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2000
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  • Publisher: SIU Press

In New Perspectiveson the Irish Diaspora, Charles Fanning incorporates eighteen fresh perspectives on the Irish diaspora over three centuries and around the globe. He enlists scholarly tools from the disciplines of history, sociology, literary criticism, folklore, and culture studies to present a collection of writings about the Irish diaspora of great variety and depth.

Irish-American Autobiography
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 193

Irish-American Autobiography

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016
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  • Publisher: CUA Press

Irish-American Autobiography opens a new window on the shifting meanings of Irishness over the twentieth century, by looking at a range of works that have never before been considered as a distinct body of literature. Opening with celebrity memoirs from athletes like boxer John L. Sullivan and ballplayer Connie Mack - written when the Irish were eager to put their raffish origins behind them - later chapters trace the many tensions, often unspoken, registered by Irish Americans who've told their life stories. New York saloonkeepers and South Boston step dancers set themselves against the larger culture, setting a pattern of being on the outside looking in. Even the classic 1950s TV comedy Th...

Race and Urban Space in American Culture
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 192

Race and Urban Space in American Culture

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-04-11
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This innovative study looks at the formation of ethnic and racial identities in relation to the development of urban culture. The concept of urban space provides the means of organization for comprehensive illustrations of a series of themes, including white paranoia and urban decline; imagined urban communities; urban crime and justice; the racialized underclass; globalization; and new ethnicities. Race and Urban Space in American Culture focuses on a wide range of contemporary film and literature (including works by African-American, Irish-American, Hispanic, Puerto Rican, and Iranian-American authors), and examines the ways in which representations of urban space define issues of rights, community and citizenship.