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The New Irish Americans
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 288

The New Irish Americans

Beginning in the early 1980s, tens of thousands of Irish nationals began settling in the U.S. Mostly young and mostly illegal, these new Irish soon began agitating for legal resident status--and making their mark on older Irish communities. Writing with wit and an eye for detail, O'Hanlon captures the travails and triumphs of these "new Irish" for the first time. 16 photos.

Unintended Consequences
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 403

Unintended Consequences

Unintended Consequences reveals how America’s door closed on legal Irish immigration in the 1960s, and how America’s Irish mounted a counterattack when nation-changing political forces were sweeping the country during the era of civil rights, political assassinations, and the Vietnam War. This book looks at the full historical background to Irish migration across the Atlantic, how it helped shape the young republic, and how the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 brought a near total halt to this westward flow. Nevertheless, the Irish would not be denied and continued to make the journey, no longer into the light of a full and legal American life, but rather into the shadows of an un...

Who's Your Paddy?
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 309

Who's Your Paddy?

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014
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  • Publisher: NYU Press

After all the green beer has been poured and the ubiquitous shamrocks fade away, what does it mean to be Irish American besides St. Patrick’s Day? Who’s Your Paddy traces the evolution of “Irish” as a race-based identity in the U.S. from the 19th century to the present day. Exploring how the Irish have been and continue to be socialized around race, Jennifer Nugent Duffy argues that Irish identity must be understood within the context of generational tensions between different waves of Irish immigrants as well as the Irish community’s interaction with other racial minorities. Using historic and ethnographic research, Duffy sifts through the many racial, class, and gendered dimensio...

An Irish Passion for Justice
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 470

An Irish Passion for Justice

An Irish Passion for Justice reveals the life and work of Paul O'Dwyer, the Irish-born and quintessentially New York activist, politician, and lawyer who fought in the courts and at the barricades for the rights of the downtrodden and the marginalized throughout the 20th century. Robert Polner and Michael Tubridy recount O'Dwyer's legal crusades, political campaigns, and civic interactions, deftly describing how he cut a principled and progressive path through New York City's political machinery and America's reactionary Cold War landscape. Polner and Tubridy's dynamic, penetrating depiction showcases O'Dwyer's consistent left-wing politics and defense of accused Communists in the labor move...

Unintended Consequences
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 300

Unintended Consequences

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-09
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Unintended Consequences reveals, for the first time, how America's door closed on significant legal Irish immigration in the 1960s, and how America's Irish mounted a counterattack when nation-changing political forces were sweeping the United States during the era of civil rights, political assassinations, and the Vietnam War. Immigration, once the well-source for a new nation, is today a word that is increasingly used to arouse political rancour and division while thousands of Irish yet live in the shadows. Here, Ray O'Hanlon examines the full historical background to Irish migration across the Atlantic and how it helped shape the young and expanding republic. The 1965 Immigration and Natio...

The South Lawn Plot
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 347

The South Lawn Plot

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011
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  • Publisher: Gemma

"An international thriller that explores long-simmering religous conflict and modern-day territory disputes"--Provided by publisher.

Wherever Green is Worn
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1392

Wherever Green is Worn

The population of Ireland is five million, but 70 million people worldwide call themselves Irish. Here, Tim Pat Coogan travels around the globe to tell their story. Irish emigration first began in the 12th century when the Normans invaded Ireland. Cromwell's terrorist campaign in the 17th century drove many Irish to France and Spain, while Cromwell deported many more to the West Indies and Virginia. Millions left due to the famine and its aftermath between 1845 and 1961. Where did they all go? From the memory of the wild San Patricios Brigade soldiers who deserted the American army during the Mexican War to fight on the side of their fellow Catholics to Australia's Irish Robin Hood: Ned Kelly, Coogan brings the vast reaches of the Irish diaspora to life in this collection of vivid and colourful tales. Rich in characterization and detail, not to mention the great Coogan wit, this is an invaluable volume that belongs on the bookshelf of every Celtophile.

Roots Too
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 494

Roots Too

In the 1950s, America was seen as a vast melting pot in which white ethnic affiliations were on the wane and a common American identity was the norm. Yet by the 1970s, these white ethnics mobilized around a new version of the epic tale of plucky immigrants making their way in the New World through the sweat of their brow. Although this turn to ethnicity was for many an individual search for familial and psychological identity, Roots Too establishes a broader white social and political consensus arising in response to the political language of the Civil Rights and Black Power movements. In the wake of the Civil Rights movement, whites sought renewed status in the romance of Old World travails...

Being New York, Being Irish
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 239

Being New York, Being Irish

New York University's Glucksman Ireland House opened a quarter-century ago to foster the study of Ireland and Irish America, and since then has led and witnessed tremendous changes in Irish and Irish-American culture. Alice McDermott writes about her son's Irish awakening; Colum McCann's Joycean essay is a brilliant call to action in defence of immigrants and social justice; Colm Tóibín's first visit to New York coincided with the first St Patrick's Day parade led by a woman; Dan Barry reflects on Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes; and a new poem by Seamus Heaney written not long before his death. Through deeply personal essays that reflect on their own experience, research and art, some of the best-known Irish writers on both sides of the Atlantic commemorate the House's anniversary by examining what has changed, and what has not, in Irish and Irish-American culture, art, identity, and politics since 1993.

Try and Make Me!
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 242

Try and Make Me!

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2002-02-09
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  • Publisher: Rodale

Two clinical experts offer a straightfoward approach to behavior modification in children, creating a seven-level program designed to empower parents to motivate and strengthen children through measured discipline. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.