New Perspectives on the Irish Diaspora

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• New Perspectives on the Irish Diaspora *
• Title Page *
• Contents vii
• Acknowledgments xi
• New Perspectives on the Irish Diaspora *
• Editor's Introduction 1
• Notes *
• Part One - Imagining Irish America 13
• 1 - Diaspora Comparisons and Irish-American Uniqueness 15
• Notes *
• 2 - Witnessing Two Worlds: Poems 28
• 3 - That Special Place: Poems and Stories from Irish America 40
• 4 - Joseph Mitchell's Irish Imagination 52
• Notes *
• Part Two - New Perspectives on Pre-Famine Immigration *
• 5 - From Ulster to Delaware: Two Poems by James Orr About an Eighteenth-Century 65

• New Perspectives on the Irish Diaspora *
• Title Page *
• Contents vii
• Acknowledgments xi
• New Perspectives on the Irish Diaspora *
• Editor's Introduction 1
• Notes *
• Part One - Imagining Irish America 13
• 1 - Diaspora Comparisons and Irish-American Uniqueness 15
• Notes *
• 2 - Witnessing Two Worlds: Poems 28
• 3 - That Special Place: Poems and Stories from Irish America 40
• 4 - Joseph Mitchell's Irish Imagination 52
• Notes *
• Part Two - New Perspectives on Pre-Famine Immigration *
• 5 - From Ulster to Delaware: Two Poems by James Orr About an Eighteenth-Century 65
• Notes *
• 6 - Scotch-Irish Myths and irish Identities in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century America 75
• Notes *
• 7 - The “second Colonization of New England” Revisited: Irish Immigration Before the Famine 93
• Notes *
• Part Three - New Sources for Diaspora Studies 115
• 8 - Rites De Passage: Rituals of Separation in Irish Oral Tradition 117
• Notes *
• 9 - The Reynolds Letters: Sources for Understanding the Irish Emigrant Experience in America and England, 1865–1934 131
• Notes *
• 10 - Bridget and Biddy: Images of the Irish Servant Girl in Puck Cartoons, 1880–1890 152
• Notes *
• 11 - Slide, Kelly, Slide: the Irish in American Baseball 176
• Works Cited *
• Part Four - New Perspectives on Irish Diasporic Communities 187
• 12 - The Irish of Chicago's Hull-House Neighborhood 189
• Notes 217
• 13 - Epidemics, Influenza, and the Irish: Norwood, Massachusetts, in 1918 223
• Notes 235
• 14 - The Last Word: Reflections on Angela's Ashes 236
• Notes *
• Part Five - Looking at Fiction of the Diaspora 251
• 15 - Yank Outsiders: Irish Americans in Gaelic Fiction and Drama of the Irish Free State, 1922–1939 253
• Notes *
• 16 - Donn Byrne: Bard of Armagh 266
• Notes *
• 17 - Winds Blowing from a Million Directions: Colummccann's Songdogs 281
• Notes 288
• 18 - Ireland as Source-Country in New Zealand Fiction: 289
• Notes 308
• Contributors Index 315
• Contributors 317
• Index 321