New World Irish: Notes on One Hundred Years of Lives and Letters in American Culture (New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature)

The book concerns the new World Irish, tracing the developing profile of the Irish in America from the Famine forward. The studies draw their material from roughly a one-hundred-year arc of Irish presence and relevance in American life and they would serve as American as well as Irish-American studies. Front Matter....Pages i-xx Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Among Cromwell’s Children....Pages 3-21 Requiem for the St. John....Pages 23-34 Blighted Prospects....Pages 35-52 Fair and Funeral....Pages 53-72 Broom and Bridget....Pages 73-87 Harold Frederic, the Irish, and The Damnation of Theron Ware....Pages 89-112 Front Matter....Pages 113-113 The Liffey to the Red River....Pages 115-128 John Ford, the Irish, and His Cavalry Trilogy....Pages 129-144 Jack Conroy, the Irish American Left, and the Radical Irish Legacy....Pages 145-165 Dublin to Bodega Bay....Pages 167-176 “Missouri Sequence”....Pages 177-190 Migration and Memory....Pages 191-202 The Celtic Carnivalesque and Muriel Rukeyser’s Irish Journey of Passion and Transformation....Pages 203-219 “He’s Irish, and He Broods Easy”....Pages 221-231 Back Matter....Pages 233-276 This book examines representative texts & events that reflect the Irish presence in American culture form the Famine to the present. Through a variety of texts, lives, and events, this study unfolds a fascinating panorama of Irish-American history, culture, and popular culture. -- Publisher description