The Irish in the Atlantic world [electronic resource] / edited by David T. Gleeson.

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9781611172201

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Author:

Gleeson, David T.

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Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 341 pages).

Series:

The Carolina lowcountry and the Atlantic world

Contents:

The Irish Atlantic? / David T. Gleeson -- pt. 1. Ireland in the Atlantic world -- Mathewite temperance in Atlantic perspective / Paul Townend -- The anatomy of failure : nineteenth-century Irish copper mining in the Atlantic and global economy / William H. Mulligan Jr. -- Transatlantic migrations of Irish music in the early recording age / Scott Spencer -- The "idea of America" in the new Irish state, 1922-1960 / Bernadette Whelan -- pt. 2. Irish identity in the Atlantic World -- "The transmigrated soul of some West Indian planter" : absenteeism, slavery, and the Irish national tale / Susan M. Kroeg -- Slavery, Irish nationalism, and Irish American identity in the South, 1840-1845 / Angela F. Murphy -- "From the cabins of Connemara to the kraals of Kaffirland" : Irish nationalists, the British Empire, and the "Boer fight for freedom" / Bruce Nelson -- Kathleen O'Brennan and American identity in the transatlantic Irish Republican movement / Catherine M. Burns -- "Blues coming down Royal Avenue" : Van Morrison's Belfast blues / Lauren Onkey -- pt. 3. The Irish in the Atlantic world -- The "quadripartite concern" of St. Croix : an Irish Catholic experiment in the Danish West Indies / Orla Power -- The Irish and the formation of British communities in early Massachusetts / Marsha L. Hamilton -- From Ulster to the Carolinas : John Torrans, John Greg, John Poaug, and Bounty emigration, 1761-1768 / Richard K. MacMaster -- "The unacclimated stranger should be positively prohibited from joining the party" : Irish immigrants, Black laborers, and yellow fever on Charleston's waterfront / Michael D. Thompson -- The Orange Atlantic / Donald M. MacRaild.

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Subject Term:

Irish Americans -- History.

Irish Americans -- Social life and customs.

Irish Americans -- Ethnic identity.

Irish -- America -- History.

Irish -- America -- Social life and customs.

Irish -- Migrations -- History.

Geographic Term:

Ireland -- Emigration and immigration -- History.

America -- Emigration and immigration -- History.

Ireland -- Relations -- America.

America -- Relations -- Ireland.

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Gleeson, David T.

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Electronic Resources

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Publication Date:

2010

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Summary

A new vision of the Irish diaspora within the Atlantic context from the eighteenth century to the present.

The Irish in the Atlantic World presents a transnational and comparative view of the Irish historical and cultural experiences as phenomena transcending traditional chronological, topical, and ethnic paradigms. Edited by David T. Gleeson, this collection of essays offers a robust new vision of the global nature of the Irish diaspora within the Atlantic context from the eighteenth century to the present and makes original inroads for new research in Irish studies.

These essays from an international cast of scholars vary in their subject matter from investigations into links between Irish popular music and the United States--including the popularity of American blues music in Belfast during the 1960s and the influences of Celtic balladry on contemporary singer Van Morrison--to a discussion of the migration of Protestant Orangemen to America and the transplanting of their distinctive non-Catholic organizations. Other chapters explore the influence of American politics on the formation of the Irish Free State in 1922, manifestations of nineteenth-century temperance and abolition movements in Irish communities, links between slavery and Irish nationalism in the formation of Irish identity in the American South, the impact of yellow fever on Irish and black labor competition on Charleston's waterfront, the fate of the Irish community at Saint Croix in the Danish West Indies, and other topics. These multidisciplinary essays offer fruitful explanations of how ideas and experiences from around the Atlantic influenced the politics, economics, and culture of Ireland, the Irish people, and the societies where Irish people settled. Taken collectively, these pieces map the web of connectivity between Irish communities at home and abroad as sites of ongoing negotiation in the development of a transatlantic Irish identity.

Author Notes

A native of Ireland, David T. Gleeson is a reader in history in the School of Arts and Social Sciences at Northumbria University in Newcastle upon Tyne. He is a former director of the College of Charleston's Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World program. His first book, The Irish in the South, 1815-1877, won the Donald Murphy Prize of the American Conference for Irish Studies.

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Choice Review

This collection explores the transatlantic interactions between Ireland, Great Britain, and the Americas from the 18th century onward. Its purpose is to show Ireland's contribution to the political, economic, and cultural infrastructures of the Atlantic world. It examines a myriad of topics that include temperance, copper mining, music, slavery, war, labor, identity construction, and race. The plethora of subjects is a definite strength of this text and highlights the editor's promise of providing essays that engage readers on many levels. Gleeson (Northumbria Univ., Newcastle, UK) divides his edited volume into three distinct sections: part one discusses the effect of the Irish who remained in Ireland and their ability to influence Atlantic transactions; part two explores how the Irish who left their homeland influenced the development of Ireland's modern identity; part three examines the outcomes associated with Irish immigration within the transatlantic context, especially in the Americas. The final essay, "The Orange Atlantic," transcends the traditional Roman Catholic Irish narrative most often associated with Ireland's interaction with Great Britain and the Americas, and is indeed apt in demonstrating that this volume is "as inclusive as possible.. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, and researchers/faculty. J. M. O'Leary Kent State University