Title New World Irish : notes on one hundred years of lives and letters in American culture / Jack Morgan

Published Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (297 pages) Series New directions in Irish and Irish American literature Contents Part I, Nineteenth century : -- Among Cromwell's children: the Irish and Yankee New England -- Requiem for the St. John: Thoreau's "The shipwreck" as an Irish famine narrative -- Blighted prospects: Irish historical haunting in America -- Fair and funeral: Henry O'Clarence McCarthy and the American Fenian years -- Broom and Bridget: the Irish servant and the New England household -- Harold Frederic, the Irish, and the damnation of Theron Ware ; -- Part II, Twentieth century : -- The Liffey to the Red River: demented mentors in Joyce's "The sisters" and Scott Fitzgerald's "Absolution" -- John Ford, the Irish, and his Cavalry trilogy -- Jack Conroy, the Irish American left, and the radical Irish legacy -- Dublin to Bodega Bay: the dark side of Alfred Hitchcock's Juno and the Paycock -- "Missouri sequence": Brian Coffey's St. Louis years -- Migration and memory: Irish poetry in the United States -- The Celtic carnivalesque and Muriel Rukeyser's Irish journey of passion and transformation -- "He's Irish, and he broods easy": John McNulty and the Irish cohort at The New Yorker Summary This book examines representative texts & events that reflect the Irish presence in American culture form the Famine to the present. Through a variety of texts, lives, and events, this study unfolds a fascinating panorama of Irish-American history, culture, and popular culture. -- Publisher description Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes Print version record Subject Irish Americans -- Intellectual life -- 19th century Irish Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century Irish Americans -- Biography Irish in literature. American literature -- History and criticism. American literature -- Irish American authors -- History and criticism Irish literature -- History and criticism Social & cultural history -- c 1800 to c 1900 -- USA -- Ireland. -- 20th century. Ethnic studies -- c 1800 to c 1900 -- USA -- Ireland. -- 20th century. HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General. History. American literature American literature -- Irish American authors International relations Irish Americans Irish Americans -- Intellectual life Irish in literature Irish literature SUBJECT United States -- Relations -- Ireland Ireland -- Relations -- United States Subject Ireland United States Genre/Form Biographies Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781137001269 1137001267

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