Ireland's Great Famine in Irish-American History: Enshrining a Fateful Memory
- ISBN-10
- 1442226080
- ISBN-13
- 9781442226081
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 260
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-11-18
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield
- Author
- Mary Kelly
Description
Ireland’s Great Famine in Irish-American History: Enshrining a Fateful Memory offers a new, concise interpretation of the history of the Irish in America. Author and distinguished professor Mary Kelly’s book is the first synthesized volume to track Ireland’s Great Famine within America’s immigrant history, and to consider the impact of the Famine on Irish ethnic identity between the mid-1800s and the end of the twentieth century. Moving beyond traditional emphases on Irish-American cornerstones such as church, party, and education, the book maps the Famine’s legacy over a century and a half of settlement and assimilation. This is the first attempt to contextualize a painful memory that has endured fitfully, and unquestionably, throughout Irish-American historical experience.
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