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The Irish in the Atlantic World : the Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World / David T. Gleeson.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, (c)2010.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781611172201
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • E184 .I757 2010
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Contents:
David T. Gleeson -- 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 -- "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 -- 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.
Subject: 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 18th 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 --
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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 18th 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 --

Includes bibliographies and index.

The Irish Atlantic? / David T. Gleeson -- 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 -- "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 -- 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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