The Routledge History of Irish America

Cover
Endorsements Page
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Foreword by Marion R. Casey
Introduction
Part 1 From Colonial Era to Early Republic
	1 Ireland and the Irish in the Atlantic World
	2 Ulster Presbyterians and the Development of a “Scotch-Irish” Identity
	3 Family and Labor in Eighteenth-Century Irish America
	4 The Irish in the Revolutionary Atlantic
	5 Race, Labor, and Slavery in Antebellum Irish America
	6 Cosmopolitan Insights from Early Irish-American Letter Networks
Part 2 The Great Famine
	7 The Great Famine Exodus
	8 American Catholicism and the Irish from Colonial Times to 1870
	9 The Rise of the Popular Press in Irish-American Culture
	10 Anti-Irish Nativism in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
	11 Irish-American Drama in Mid-Nineteenth-Century America
	12 Folklore in Irish America
	13 Irish-American Famine Literature
Part 3 After the Famine
	14 How Remembering the Famine Shaped Irish-American Identity
	15 The Irish in the Civil War and Reconstruction
	16 Race, Gender, and Irish Labor in US Northeastern Cities
	17 California, Race, and the Irish in the West
	18 Irish Americans in American Politics and the Catholic Church, 1870–1945
	19 The Emmets and the Jameses, an Irish-American Case Study
Part 4 The Turn of the Twentieth Century
	20 America and Irish-American Nationalism
	21 America and Irish Unionism, 1870–1930
	22 Irish-American Women and Political Activism in the Early Twentieth Century
	23 The Irish and Labor in the Industrial Era, 1880–1930s
	24 Irish Labor, Liberty, and Literature in the Twentieth-Century Atlantic World
Part 5 After World War II
	25 The Irish and the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965
	26 Irish-American Politics in the Mid-Twentieth Century
	27 Revisiting the Role of the United States of America in Northern Ireland
	28 Capturing Fading Communities in Post-World War II Irish-American Fiction
	29 Lorraine Hansberry, Sean O’Casey, and the Common Space of the Theater
	30 Irish Americanness in Late Twentieth-Century Hollywood Films
Part 6 Irish America in the Third Millennium
	31 Media and the Irish Diaspora from the Twentieth Century to the Present
	32 Irish America, the “Celtic Tiger,” and After
	33 Irish Americans and US Politics in the Twenty-First Century
	34 Breaking the Silence of Child Sexual Abuse in the Irish-American Catholic Church
	35 LGBTQ Irish Activists and the Queering of Irish America
Part 7 The Twenty-First Century and Beyond
	36 The Irish Language in America
	37 Irish Music in America
	38 Disability in Irish-Catholic America
	39 Animals in Irish-American Poetry
	40 Whiteness and the Contemporary Irish-American Family Saga
	41 Contemporary Irish America and the Environment
Afterword: The Remarkable Persistence of Irish America
Index