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Few writers on the Irish in America have looked beyond the nineteenth-century ethnic enclaves of New York, Boston, Philadelphia, or Chicago, or have asked how the notion of an Irish-American ethnic identity in contemporary America can be reconciled with five, six, or seven generations of intermarriage and assimilation over the last century and a half. This study, based on interviews with 500 people of Irish ancestry in Albany, New York, aims to discover in what senses and in what degrees the present-day descendants of nineteenth-century Irish immigrants possess distinctive social practices and ways of seeing the world, and raises questions about the social conditions in which ideas of Irishness have been created and re-created.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History Regional & national history

• Full title: Irish America
• Author: Reginald Byron
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 328
• EAN: 9780198233558
• ISBN: 0198233558
• ID: 04032446
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Weight: 424 g
• Dimensions: 213 × 143 × 21 mm
• Date of publishing: 11. November 1999

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