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The Irish in popular literature in the early American republic : paddy whacking

This anthology collects and organizes the multiform depictions of the Irish from 1786-1840, in a volume that establishes the origins of the American cultural fixation on representations of the Irish. -- publisher website
Print Book, English, ©2000
Edwin Mellen Press, Lewiston, N.Y., ©2000
Literature
394 pages ; 24 cm.
9780773478381, 9780773478688, 0773478388, 077347868X
42882962
Introduction
Glossary of Irish idioms and other paddy whacking words
Bulls, boasts, and blunders
Wit
Characters and sketches
Stories and extracts