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PublisherUniversity of North Carolina Press

ISBN-100807849685

ISBN-139780807849682

eBay Product ID (ePID)1924605

Product Key Features

Number of Pages296 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameIrish in the South, 1815-1877

Publication Year2001

SubjectGenealogy & Heraldry, United States / 19th Century, Emigration & Immigration, Customs & Traditions

FeaturesNew Edition

TypeNot Available

Subject AreaRéférence, Social Science, History

AuthorDavid T. Gleeson

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight15 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.1 in

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LCCN2001-027544

TitleLeadingThe

ReviewsDavid T. Gleeson demonstrates that Irish America comes in different shades of green. In his perceptive, well-researched, and readable The Irish in the South, 1815-1877 he reveals its regional diversity. (Lawrence J. McCaffrey, author of The Irish Catholic Diaspora in America and Textures of Irish America ), David T. Gleeson demonstrates that Irish America comes in different shades of green. In his perceptive, well-researched, and readableThe Irish in the South, 1815-1877he reveals its regional diversity. (Lawrence J. McCaffrey, author ofThe Irish Catholic Diaspora in AmericaandTextures of Irish America)

Dewey Edition21

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal975/.0049162

Intended AudienceTrade

Edition DescriptionNew Edition

SynopsisThe only comprehensive study of Irish immigrants in the nineteenth-century South, this book makes a valuable contribution to the story of the Irish in America and to our understanding of southern culture.The Irish who migrated to the Old South struggled to make a new home in a land where they were viewed as foreigners and were set apart by language, high rates of illiteracy, and their own self-identification as temporary exiles from famine and British misrule. They countered this isolation by creating vibrant, tightly knit ethnic communities in the cities and towns across the South where they found work, usually menial jobs. Finding strength in their communities, Irish immigrants developed the confidence to raise their voices in the public arena, forcing native southerners to recognize and accept them--first politically, then socially.The Irish integrated into southern society without abandoning their ethnic identity. They displayed their loyalty by fighting for the Confederacy during the Civil War and in particular by opposing the Radical Reconstruction that followed. By 1877, they were a unique part of the "Solid South." Unlike the Irish in other parts of the United States, the Irish in the South had to fit into a regional culture as well as American culture in general. By following their attempts to become southerners, we learn much about the unique experience of ethnicity in the American South., A comprehensive study of Irish immigrants in the 19th-century American South, this book seeks to make a valuable contribution to the story of the Irish in America and to our understanding of southern culture., The only comprehensive study of Irish immigrants in the nineteenth-century South, this book makes a valuable contribution to the story of the Irish in America and to our understanding of southern culture. The Irish who migrated to the Old South struggled to make a new home in a land where they were viewed as foreigners and were set apart by language, high rates of illiteracy, and their own self-identification as temporary exiles from famine and British misrule. They countered this isolation by creating vibrant, tightly knit ethnic communities in the cities and towns across the South where they found work, usually menial jobs. Finding strength in their communities, Irish immigrants developed the confidence to raise their voices in the public arena, forcing native southerners to recognize and accept them--first politically, then socially. The Irish integrated into southern society without abandoning their ethnic identity. They displayed their loyalty by fighting for the Confederacy during the Civil War and in particular by opposing the Radical Reconstruction that followed. By 1877, they were a unique part of the "Solid South." Unlike the Irish in other parts of the United States, the Irish in the South had to fit into a regional culture as well as American culture in general. By following their attempts to become southerners, we learn much about the unique experience of ethnicity in the American South.

LC Classification Number2001027544 [F]