{"product_id":"making-the-irish-american-history-and-heritage-of-the-irish-in-the-united-states-9780814752081","title":"Making the Irish American: History and Heritage of the Irish in the United States","description":"\u003cp\u003eA collection of 29 essays on the fascinating and turbulent history of the Irish in America  Featuring 29 classic and original essays on the turbulent  vital  and fascinating story of the Irish in America. The contributors include Linda Dowling Almeida  Margaret Lynch-Brennan  Marion R. Casey  David Noel Doyle  Pete Hamill  Kevin Kenny  Rebecca S. Miller  Mick Moloney  Daniel Patrick Moynihan  Peter Quinn  and Calvin Trillin.  All it takes is one St. Patricks Day in the United States to realize that the Irish did not dissolve into the melting pot  they took possession of it. Few other immigrant peoples have exerted such pervasive influence  have left so deep an impression  have made their values and concerns so central to the destiny of their new country.  In Making the Irish American  J.J. Lee and Marion R. Casey offer a feast of twenty-nine perspectives on the turbulent  vital  endlessly fascinating story of the Irish in America. Combining original research with reprints of classic works  these essays and articles extend far beyond a survey to offer a truly rich understanding of the Irish immigrant impact on America  and Americas impact on the Irish immigrant.  Here the reader will find a brisk  compact history of Ireland itself  and a wide-ranging critique of Irish American historiography  as well as explorations of the multiple complications of religion  reflected in the fluctuating  and sometimes tempestuous  relations between Catholic and Protestant Irish and Scotch-Irish. The authors explore the various channels through which the Irish  men and women  have made their mark  from politics to labor organization  from domestic service to popular and traditional music  from sport to step dancing.  Classic reprints include Daniel Patrick Moynihans study of the Irish in New York  Pete Hamills memoir of President Kennedyrecollecting the responses around him in Belfast at the time of the assassinationCalvin Trillins New Yorker profile of Judge James J. Comerford  long the iron-handed boss of New Yorks St. Patricks Day parade  and Peter Quinns meditations on the essence of Irish America  past  present and future. They all offer sparkling insights into the evolving tension between becoming American and becoming Irish American.  Making the Irish American is monumental in the best senseserious but accessible  wide-ranging and far-reaching and enriched by seventy unique illustrations. This exciting and challenging collection belongs on the bookshelf of everyone interested in not only the Irish American  but the American story  of which they form so vivid and prominent a part. Copublished with the Glucksman Ireland House of New York University.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45651900432437,"sku":"ByrdShop_081475208X","price":103.73,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780814752081.jpg?v=1781844574","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/making-the-irish-american-history-and-heritage-of-the-irish-in-the-united-states-9780814752081","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}