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Irish America
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- Book Synopsis
- 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.
- About The Author
- Adjunct Professor of Anthropology, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Long Island, New York Research Professor of Anthropology, Union College, Schenectady, New York
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9780198233558
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, (11 November 1999)
- Number of Pages
- 317
- Weight
- 391 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 217 x 138 x 18 mm
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