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Informationen zum Autor Maura Grace Harrington is an instructor in the English Department at Seton Hall University. Her articles have appeared in many journals including Yeats Eliot Review, Edgar Allan Poe Review, South Carolina Review, and Early Modern Literary Studies.Marta M. Deyrup is professor/librarian I at Seton Hall University and served for six years as the university's codirector of women and gender studies. She is the editor of Digital Scholarship and the East-Central European Collections of the New York Public Library Research Libraries and the author of The Vita Constantini as Literary and Linguistic Construct for the Early Slavs. Klappentext Focusing on the local New Jersey/New York Irish-American experience, this interdisciplinary book is a case study in what Irish-Americans have contributed to public and cultural life in the United States: how they have retained elements of Irish culture and invented elements of their own ethnic American culture. Zusammenfassung Focusing on the local New Jersey/New York Irish-American experience! this interdisciplinary book is a case study in what Irish-Americans have contributed to public and cultural life in the United States: how they have retained elements of Irish culture and invented elements of their own ethnic American culture. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword: Maura Grace Harrington and Marta M. Deyrup Introduction: Dermot QuinnPart I: Irish Americans in the Newark AreaChapter 1: The Irish in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark-Augustine J. Curley, O.S.B.Chapter 2: "Keeping the Tradition Alive"-William B. Rogers and Nicole AndersonChapter 3: Perspectives on the Easter Rising-Maura Grace HarringtonPart II: Arriving and ThrivingChapter 4: Irish Immigration to the United States in the 20th Century-Linda Dowling Almeida Chapter 5: American Irish in Service to Community & Country: A Vocational & New Jersey Perspective-Alan DelozierChapter 6: An Irish-American Politician: Governor Richard Hughes-John B. WefingChapter 7: The Writing Irish-Ray O'Hanlon Part III: The Greater New York/New Jersey RegionChapter 8: Music in the Mountains: The Irish Catskills and Traditional Music-Brendan DolanChapter 9: "With Pick and Shovel": Commemorating the Workers Who Died Building the Delaware and Raritan Canal, 1830-1834-Paul Ferris...
