Irish-American Autobiography Rogers James Silas
Irish-American Autobiography Rogers James Silas Is there still a distinct Irish identity in America? True, the age of heroic immigration is over, and today the term "Irish-American" almost always…
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Irish-American Autobiography Rogers James Silas
Is there still a distinct Irish identity in America? True, the age of heroic immigration is over, and today the term "Irish-American" almost always means an American of Irish descent. This highly original survey says yes, though it's often an indirect one.
But for all the external trappings of Irishness, the terms, traditions, and nuances of that identity stay elusive.Irish-American Autobiography opens a new window on the shifting meanings of Irishness over the twentieth century, by looking at a range of works that have never before been considered as a distinct body of literature. If the Irish long ago ceased to be America's largest ethnic group, they've nonetheless stayed among the most visible (not least because St Patrick's Day has been adopted by the nation at large). Opening with celebrity memoirs from athletes like boxer John L.
Sullivan and ballplayer Connie