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Irish in the South, 1815-1877
Irish in the South, 1815-1877
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The only comprehensive study of Irish immigrants in the nineteenth-century South, this book makes a valuable contribution to the story of the Irish in America and to our understanding of southern culture.
The Irish who migrated to the Old South struggled to make a new home in a land where they were viewed as foreigners and were set apart by language, high rates of illiteracy, and their own self-identification as temporary exiles from famine and British misrule. They countered this isolation by creating vibrant, tightly knit ethnic communities in the cities and towns across the South where they found work, usually menial jobs. Finding strength in their communities, Irish immigrants developed the confidence to raise their voices in the public arena, forcing native southerners to recognize and accept them--first politically, then socially.
The Irish integrated into southern society without abandoning their ethnic identity. They displayed their loyalty by fighting for the Confederacy during the Civil War and in particular by opposing the Radical Reconstruction that followed. By 1877, they were a unique part of the "Solid South." Unlike the Irish in other parts of the United States, the Irish in the South had to fit into a regional culture as well as American culture in general. By following their attempts to become southerners, we learn much about the unique experience of ethnicity in the American South.
Author: David T. Gleeson
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 11/26/2001
Pages: 296
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 9.22h x 6.34w x 0.69d
ISBN: 9780807849682
Review Citation(s):
Choice 06/01/2002 pg. 1864
The Irish who migrated to the Old South struggled to make a new home in a land where they were viewed as foreigners and were set apart by language, high rates of illiteracy, and their own self-identification as temporary exiles from famine and British misrule. They countered this isolation by creating vibrant, tightly knit ethnic communities in the cities and towns across the South where they found work, usually menial jobs. Finding strength in their communities, Irish immigrants developed the confidence to raise their voices in the public arena, forcing native southerners to recognize and accept them--first politically, then socially.
The Irish integrated into southern society without abandoning their ethnic identity. They displayed their loyalty by fighting for the Confederacy during the Civil War and in particular by opposing the Radical Reconstruction that followed. By 1877, they were a unique part of the "Solid South." Unlike the Irish in other parts of the United States, the Irish in the South had to fit into a regional culture as well as American culture in general. By following their attempts to become southerners, we learn much about the unique experience of ethnicity in the American South.
Author: David T. Gleeson
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 11/26/2001
Pages: 296
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 9.22h x 6.34w x 0.69d
ISBN: 9780807849682
Review Citation(s):
Choice 06/01/2002 pg. 1864
About the Author
Gleeson, David T.: - David T. Gleeson, a native of Ireland, is associate professor of history at the College of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina.
