Author: Byron, Reginald
Brand: OUP Oxford
Number Of Pages: 336
Release Date: 09-03-2000
Details: Product Description Few writers on the Irish in America have looked beyond the nineteenth-century ethnic enclaves of New York, Boston, Philadelphia, or Chicago, or have asked how the notion of an Irish-American ethnic identity in contemporary America can be reconciled with five, six, or seven generations of intermarriage and assimilation over the last century and a half. This study, based on interviews with 500 people of Irish ancestry in Albany, New York, aims to discover in what senses and in what degrees the present-day descendants of nineteenth-century Irish immigrants possess distinctive social practices and ways of seeing the world, and raises questions about the social conditions in which ideas of Irishness have been created and re-created. Review This is a refreshingly intriguing book with no trace of misty-eyed self-indulgence about the sea-divided Gael. ― Irish Review 27 Irish America asks whether people who identify themselves as Irish-Americans have distinctive ways of behaving or thinking, five, six or seven generations down from the period of heaviest immigration around the time of the Famine. ― Ian Jackman, London Review of Books, September 7th 2000 Byron believes that one effect of multiculturalism has been to force people to choose an ethnie - a politically and socially divisive practice. ― Ian Jackman, London Review of Books, September 7th 2000 What a tonic this excellent book is for serious and non-partisan students of Irish America, and for commentators and analysts of the Irish diaspora generally. At last a superbly researched and rigorously though through challenge to - I would say demolition of - the mythological orthodoxy generated by the dominance, in image-making, of the Irish ghettos of New York, Boston, Philadelphia. ― Patrick O'Farrell, Irish Studies Review, Vol. 8, No.2 What a marvelous Liberation for scholarship! ― Patrick O'Farrell, Irish Studies Review, Vol. 8, No.2 it is a highly professional, very well-informed, and toughly intelligent sociological exercise, based on wide and exhaustive interviews. These are set on a firm historiographical and geographic base, subjected to constant discussion between the author and his two research assistants, and analysed with patient, open-minded, care and balance. ― Patrick O'Farrell, Irish Studies Review, Vol. 8, No.2 If only sociology were always like this! ― Patrick O'Farrell, Irish Studies Review, Vol. 8, No.2 It is a pleasure to welcome this book into the front ranks of Irish diaspora studies. ― Patrick O'Farrell, Irish Studies Review, Vol. 8, No.2 Review This is a refreshingly intriguing book with no trace of misty-eyed self-indulgence about the sea-divided Gael. ― Irish Review 27 Irish America asks whether people who identify themselves as Irish-Americans have distinctive ways of behaving or thinking, five, six or seven generations down from the period of heaviest immigration around the time of the Famine. ― Ian Jackman, London Review of Books, September 7th 2000 Byron believes that one effect of multiculturalism has been to force people to choose an ethnie - a politically and socially divisive practice. ― Ian Jackman, London Review of Books, September 7th 2000 What a tonic this excellent book is for serious and non-partisan students of Irish America, and for commentators and analysts of the Irish diaspora generally. At last a superbly researched and rigorously though through challenge to - I would say demolition of - the mythological orthodoxy generated by the dominance, in image-making, of the Irish ghettos of New York, Boston, Philadelphia. ― Patrick O'Farrell, Irish Studies Review, Vol. 8, No.2 What a marvelous Liberation for scholarship! ― Patrick O'Farrell, Irish Studies Review, Vol. 8, No.2 it is a highly professional, very well-informed, and toughly intelligent sociological exercise, based on wide and exhaustive interviews. These are set on a firm historiographical and geographic base, subjected to constant discussion
EAN: 9780198233558
Languages: English
Binding: Paperback
Item Condition: UsedLikeNew