Ireland''s Great Famine in Irish-American History - Enshrining a Fateful Memory

Ireland's Great Famine recasts traditional approaches to the Irish experience in America in a striking new reading of the history. This is the first compact synthesis to place Ireland's Great Famine at the heart of the modern ethnic narrative, and to explore the Famine's Irish-American legacy as a key factor in its course.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Irish Hunger: Irish-American Crucible

1 Floodtide: Framing Famine Memory between 1845 and 1900
2 Latent Memory: Constructing Irish-American Identity in the early 1900s
3 Ethnic Progression: Selective Memory by the mid-1900s
4 "Where Past and Present Mingle": Roadways to Remembrance
5 Long Threatening: From Confrontation to Commemoration in the 1990s

Epilogue: At the End of the Day
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

About the author

By Mary Kelly

Product details

• Authors: Mary Kelly, Mary C. Kelly
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.11.2013
• EAN: 9781442226074
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-2607-4
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; USA, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, European History, American Studies, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, HISTORY / Europe / Ireland, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Ireland, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, British & Irish history, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas