The Famine Diaspora and Irish American Women's Writing

Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Introduction
	A Forgotten Generation of Women Writers
	The Significance of these Irish-American Woman Authors
	Outline of the Volume
Part I: Groundbreaking Irish Women Writers of North America
	Chapter 2: From Regional Remembrance to Transatlantic Heritage: The Transportability of Famine Memory in Fiction by Mary Anne Sadlier, Anna Dorsey, and Alice Nolan
		Famine Victims as Catholic Martyrs
		The Symbolical Role of Ruins
		Catholic Sites of Memory
		Ascendancy Women as Champions of Irish Catholicism
		Excerpt 1: Mary Anne Sadlier, New Lights; or Life in Galway (New York, Boston, Montreal: D. & J. Sadlier and Co., 1853), 282–88
		Excerpt 2: Alice Nolan, The Byrnes of Glengoulah: A True Tale (New York: P. O’Shea, 1868), 207–10
		Excerpt 3: Anna Dorsey, Nora Brady’s Vow (Boston: P. Donahue, 1869), 148–50
	Chapter 3: “Six Thousand Half Forgotten Victims”: Mary Anne Sadlier, Contested Famine Memory, and French-Canadians
		Irish Protestant and Irish Catholic Perceptions of French-Canadians
		“The Meaning of this Monument”
		“Their Place of Sepulture”
		Conclusion
		Excerpt: Mrs. James Sadlier, “The Plague of 1847”, Messenger of the Sacred Heart (Montreal: League of the Sacred Heart, June 1891), pp. 204–210
	Chapter 4: Irish Sentimentality and White Racial Projects in the Civil War Novels of Mary Anne Sadlier and Mary L. Meaney
		Sadlier’s Sentimentalism: Irish Catholic Superiority to African and Anglo Americans
		Meaney’s Sentimentalism: Compassion for Irish Catholic “Slaves”
		Conclusion
		Extract 1: Mrs J. Sadlier, Old and New; or Taste Versus Fashion (New York: P.J. Kenedy, 1903), 122–30.
		Extract 2: Mary L. Meaney, The Confessors of Connaught; or The tenants of a Lord Bishop (Philadelphia: Peter F. Cunningham, 1865), 207–14.
Part II: Irish American Women’s Activism (1880–1920)
	Chapter 5: Fanny Parnell: The Songstress of the Land League
		Fanny Parnell, Famine, and the Land League
		Hovels and the Power of the Written Word
		Fanny Parnell’s Poetry
		Excerpt 1: Fanny Parnell, “Hold the Harvest” (1880)
		Excerpt 2: Fanny Parnell, from: The Hovels of Ireland (New York: Thomas Kelly, 1880), 3–4, 7, 8–9, 10, 19–21, 56, 58, 62–3, 65
	Chapter 6: Mary Harris “Mother” Jones and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn: Radical Women of the Irish Diaspora
		Mary Harris Jones: from Tragedy to Rebellion
		Elizabeth Gurley Flynn: An Irish Rebel Life
		Conclusion
		Excerpt 1: “Address of Mother Jones Delivered Before the Convention in Trinidad. Colo., on Tuesday, the 16th Day of September, A. D. 1913,” in Conditions in the Coal Mines of Colorado Part 9 Exhibits, etc: Hearings before the United States House Commi
		Excerpt 2: From: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Sabotage: The Conscious Withdrawal of the Workers’ Industrial Efficiency (Chicago: IWW Publishing Bureau, 1917), [2–18]
			General Forms of Sabotage
			Short Pay, Less Work. Ca Canny
			Interfering With Quality of Goods
			Non-Adulteration and Over-Adulteration
			Interfering with Service: Open Mouth Sabotage
			Following the “Book of Rules”
	Chapter 7: Kate Kennedy, Irish Famine Refugee and American Feminist
		Early Life in Ireland
		Transatlantic Exodus
		The Teaching Irish
		An Activist Educator
		A Georgist Author
		Conclusion
		Extract: Kate Kennedy, “The Foolish Pigeons,” in Doctor Paleyś Foolish Pigeons, and Short Sermons to Working-Men (San Francisco, Cubery & Co., 1906), 33–42
	Chapter 8: Margaret Dixon McDougall’s The Days of a Life (1883): an Irish-Canadian Perspective of the Repetitive Nature of Irish History
		British Laws on Irish Soil
		Famines Then and Now
		Conclusion
		Excerpt: Margaret Dixon McDougall, The Days of a Life (Almonte: Templeman, 1883), 163–82
Index