Irish American Landmarks

Author : John A. Barnes
Publisher : Visible Ink Press
ISBN 13 : 9780787600846
Total Pages : 618 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Irish-American Landmarks written by John A. Barnes and published by Visible Ink Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A first-rate traveler's guide as well as an admirable addition to American ethnic studies". -- Chicago Tribune Take a tour of 3,000 sites and memorials of the Irish in America with this exciting travel book. More than just a travelogue, Irish-American Landmarks tells a gripping story, relevant to anyone interested in discovering the people and culture behind American history. For armchair travelers, Irish-American Landmarks brings historical sites to life through vivid descriptions and illustrations.

Author : Maureen Dezell
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 038549596X
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Irish America written by Maureen Dezell and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2002-03-05 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Old-time politics, piety, and St. Patrick’s Day parades loom large when the Irish come to the American mind. None truly represents the complex legacy or contributions of the nation’s oldest ethnic group, who rank among the most highly educated and affluent Americans today. In Irish America, Maureen Dezell takes a new and invigorating look at Americans of Irish Catholic ancestry—who they are, and how they got that way. A welcome antidote to so many standard-issue, sentimental representations of the Irish in the United States, Irish America focuses on popular culture as well as politics; the Irish in the Midwest and West as well as the East; the “new Irish” immigrants; the complicated role of the Church today; and the unheralded heritage of Irish American women. Deftly weaving history, reporting, and the observations of more than 100 men and women of Irish descent on both sides of the Atlantic, Dezell presents an insightful and highly readable portrait of a people and a culture.

Author : Mary Kelly
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442226080
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ireland's Great Famine in Irish-American History written by Mary Kelly and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-11-18 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Kevin Eyres
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781847862105
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ireland written by Kevin Eyres and published by . This book was released on 2008-04-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows Ireland in all its beauty. From well-loved spots to seldom-seen vistas, this little book covers the whole of the Emerald Isle from Ulster North to Munster South, from Giant's Causeway to the Cliffs of Moher.

Author : Peter Harbison
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815603122
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pilgrimage in Ireland written by Peter Harbison and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1995-06-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The landscape of Ireland is rich with ancient carved stone crosses, tomb-shrines, Romanesque churches, round towers, sundials, beehive huts, Ogham stones and other monuments, many of them dating from before the 12th century. The purpose and function of these artifacts have often been the subject of much debate. Peter Harbison proposes in this book a radical hypothesis: that a great many of these relics can be explained in terms of ecclesiastical pilgrimage. He has constructed a fascination theory about the palace of pilgrimage in the early Christian period, placing it right at the center of communal life. The monuments themselves make much better sense if it looked at in this light—as having come into existence not through the practices of ascetic monks but because of the activities of pilgrims. He begins by searching the historical sources in detail for evidence of early pilgrimage sites. By examining their monuments he projects the findings to other locations where pilgrimage has not been documented. He goes on to describe monument-types of every kind and to identify pilgrims in sculpture surviving from before AD 1200. The Dingle Peninsula in Kerry proves to be a microcosm of pilgrimage monuments, enabling the author to reconstruct a tradition of maritime pilgrimage activity up and down the west coast of Ireland. Indeed, the famous medieval traveler's tale of the fabulous voyage of the St Brendan the Navigator can now be seen as the literary expression of a longstanding maritime pilgrimage along the Atlantic seaways of Ireland and Scotland, reaching Iceland, Greenland, and even North America.

Author : John O'Hanlon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Irish-American History of the United States written by John O'Hanlon and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canon John O'Hanlon was principally a religious writer who compiled volumes of the lives of Irish saints, folklore and mythology. His Irish-American History of the United States offers an unusual perspective on American history and contains plentiful maps with portraits of founders, generals and presidents of the United States. -- Amazon.com.

Author : Kerby A. Miller
Publisher : Field Day Publications
ISBN 13 : 0946755396
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ireland and Irish America written by Kerby A. Miller and published by Field Day Publications. This book was released on 2008 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1600 and 1929, perhaps seven million men and women left Ireland and crossed the Atlantic. Ireland and Irish America is concerned with Catholics and Protestants, rural and urban dwellers, men and women on both sides of that vast ocean. Drawing on over thirty years of research, in sources as disparate as emigrants' letters and demographic data, it recovers the experiences and opinions of emigrants as varied as the Rev. James McGregor, who in 1718 led the first major settlement of Presbyterians from Ulster to the New World, Mary Rush, a desperate refugee from the Great Famine in County Sligo, and Tom Brick, an Irish-speaking Kerryman on the American prairie in the early 1900s. Above all, Ireland and Irish America offers a trenchant analysis of mass migration's causes, its consequences, and its popular and political interpretations. In the process, it challenges the conventional 'two traditions' (Protestant versus Catholic) paradigm of Irish and Irish diasporan history, and it illuminates the hegemonic forces and relationships that governed the Irish and Irish-American worlds created and linked by transatlantic capitalism.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Irish America written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard Demeter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780964825314
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Irish America: Southern and border states, Plains and Rocky Mountain states, Western and Southern states written by Richard Demeter and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " ... A geographical guide to sites associated with men and women of Irish ancestry."--Back cover.

Author : Maeve Conrick
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 177112203X
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Landscapes and Landmarks of Canada written by Maeve Conrick and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2017-03-28 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The image of the “land” is an ongoing trope in conceptions of Canada—from the national anthem and the flag to the symbols on coins—the land and nature remain linked to the Canadian sense of belonging and to the image of the nation abroad. Linguistic landscapes reflect the multi-faceted identities and cultural richness of the nations. Earlier portrayals of the land focused on unspoiled landscape, depicted in the paintings of the Group of Seven, for example. Contemporary notions of identity, belonging, and citizenship are established, contested, and legitimized within sites and institutions of public culture, heritage, and representation that reflect integration with the land, transforming landscape into landmarks. The Highway of Heroes originating at Canadian Forces Base Trenton in Ontario and Grosse Île and the Irish Memorial National Historic Site in Québec are examples of landmarks that transform landscape into a built environment that endeavours to respect the land while using it as a site to commemorate, celebrate, and promote Canadian identity. Similarly in literature and the arts, the creation of the built environment and the interaction among those who share it is a recurrent theme. This collection includes essays by Canadian and international scholars whose engagement with the theme stems from their disciplinary perspectives as well as from their personal and professional experience—rooted, at least partially, in their own sense of national identity and in their relationship to Canada.