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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779333703321

Titolo

The Irish in the Atlantic world [[electronic resource] /] / edited by David T. Gleeson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Columbia, S.C., : University of South Carolina Press, c2010

ISBN

1-283-83721-8

1-61117-220-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (350 p.)

Collana

The Carolina lowcountry and the Atlantic world

Altri autori (Persone)

GleesonDavid T

Disciplina

305.891/62073

Soggetti

Irish Americans - History

Irish Americans - Social life and customs

Irish Americans - Ethnic identity

Irish - America - History

Irish - America - Social life and customs

Irish - Migrations - History

Ireland Emigration and immigration History

America Emigration and immigration History

Ireland Relations America

America Relations Ireland

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The Irish Atlantic? / David T. Gleeson -- Mathewite temperance in Atlantic perspective / Paul Townend -- The anatomy of failure : nineteenth-century Irish copper mining in the Atlantic and global economy / William H. Mulligan Jr. -- Transatlantic migrations of Irish music in the early recording age / Scott Spencer -- The "idea of America" in the new Irish state, 1922-1960 / Bernadette Whelan -- "The transmigrated soul of some West Indian planter" : absenteeism, slavery, and the Irish national tale / Susan M. Kroeg -- Slavery, Irish nationalism, and Irish American identity in the South, 1840-1845 / Angela F. Murphy -- "From the cabins of Connemara to the kraals of Kaffirland" : Irish nationalists, the British Empire, and the "Boer fight for freedom" / Bruce Nelson -- Kathleen O'Brennan and American identity



in the transatlantic Irish Republican movement / Catherine M. Burns -- "Blues coming down Royal Avenue" : Van Morrison's Belfast blues / Lauren Onkey -- The "quadripartite concern" of St. Croix : an Irish Catholic experiment in the Danish West Indies / Orla Power -- The Irish and the formation of British communities in early Massachusetts / Marsha L. Hamilton -- From Ulster to the Carolinas : John Torrans, John Greg, John Poaug, and Bounty emigration, 1761-1768 / Richard K. MacMaster -- "The unacclimated stranger should be positively prohibited from joining the party" : Irish immigrants, Black laborers, and yellow fever on Charleston's waterfront / Michael D. Thompson -- The Orange Atlantic / Donald M. MacRaild.