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Irish America / Reginald Byron.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Oxford studies in social and cultural anthropologyPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 317 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585486328
  • 9780585486321
  • 1280442646
  • 9781280442643
  • 9786610442645
  • 6610442649
  • 9786610758784
  • 6610758786
  • 9786610806911
  • 6610806918
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Irish America.DDC classification:
  • 305.891/62073 22
LOC classification:
  • E184.I6 B97 1999eb
Other classification:
  • 71.37
Online resources:
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: 1. Prologue -- 2. Colonists and Immigrants -- 3. As Irish as any City in America -- 4. Past in the Present -- 5. Over the Generations -- 6. Irish-Catholic-Democrat -- 7. Importance of being Irish -- 8. Wearing of the Green -- 9. Socioscape of Irish America.
Summary: "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 recreated."--Jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Machine generated contents note: 1. Prologue -- 2. Colonists and Immigrants -- 3. As Irish as any City in America -- 4. Past in the Present -- 5. Over the Generations -- 6. Irish-Catholic-Democrat -- 7. Importance of being Irish -- 8. Wearing of the Green -- 9. Socioscape of Irish America.

"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 recreated."--Jacket.

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