| The Shamrock and the Lily: The New York Irish and the Creation of a Transatlantic Identity, 1845-1921 Contributor(s): Kelly, Mary C. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0820474533 ISBN-13: 9780820474533 Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi OUR PRICE: $41.80 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2005 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - General - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - General - History | Europe - Great Britain - General |
| Dewey: 974.710 |
| LCCN: 2004010422 |
| Physical Information: 262 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Ireland's tumultuous heritage combined with the promise of cosmopolitan New York to forge a new Irish-American immigrant identity. Between the Great Irish Famine and the creation of the Irish Free State, the New York Irish world preserved as much from the old country as it adopts from the new. The Shamrock and the Lily illuminates a set of remarkable transatlantic connections dominated by the road to Ireland's independence, in an absorbing study of a people driven from a troubled past toward freedom for themselves and for those they left behind. |