{"product_id":"the-irish-catholic-diaspora-in-america","title":"The Irish Catholic Diaspora in America","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen Lawrence J. McCaffreys The Irish Diaspora in America was published in 1976  it won rave reviews and quickly became the standard college and university text on the Irish-American experience. Named the \"best short history of the Irish in America\" by Andrew M. Greeley in a New York Times review  McCaffreys work traced the experience of Irish-American Catholics from their beginnings as detested  unskilled pioneers of the urban ghetto to their rise as an essentially affluent  powerful  middle-class suburban community.  Blending his work and the contributions of other scholars  McCaffrey here adds fresh interpretations to the history of Irish American Catholics. He focuses on a number of topics  including the significance of Catholicism as the core of Irish ethnicity and the source of nativist attacks on their presence in the United States; the impact of Irish America on the course of Irish nationalism; the psychological struggle to reconcile Irish loyalties to an authoritarian religion and a liberal-democratic politics; and  more recently  the fading of the Catholic dimension of Irish identity.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44984551342133,"sku":"ByrdShop_0813208963","price":27.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780813208961.jpg?v=1770837046","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-irish-catholic-diaspora-in-america","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}