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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: | Byron, Reginald. |
ISBN: | 1280758783 9781280758782 1280806915 9781280806919 0191543772 9780191543777 0585486328 9780585486321 |
OCLC Number: | 814476027 |
Description: | 1 online resource (328 pages) |
Series Title: | Oxford studies in social and cultural anthropology. |
Abstract:
Few writers on the Irish in America have looked beyond the 19th-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 19th-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.
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