Eire-Ireland: a Journal of Irish Studies articles from March 2001

Eire-Ireland: a Journal of Irish Studies archives from March 2001

Editor's introduction.
March 22, 2001... WHEN the editors of Eire-Ireland invited me to edit a special issue on "Irish America," I sensed an opportunity to bring together the very best recent scholarship in the field. This opportunity seemed especially timely in light of the growing...

Patterns of Irish emigration to America, 1783-1800.
March 22, 2001... THE general features of Irish emigration to colonial America are clear and relatively undisputed: it was largely of Ulster origin; the majority sailed for the Hudson and Delaware valleys; and the departures peaked at three points: 1717-20,...

"We will dirk every mother's son of you": five points and the Irish conquest of New York politics. *.(19th-century New York's Five Points neighborhood)
March 22, 2001... NEW YORK'S Five Points neighborhood was the most infamous slum in nineteenth-century America. Located just north of City Hall in what is now Chinatown, the district was laid out in the first years of the nineteenth century when city officials...

"The republic of letters": Frederick Douglas, Ireland, and the Irish narratives.
March 22, 2001... ONE of the most notable visitors to Irish shores during the nineteenth century was Frederick Douglass, author, abolitionist, and fugitive slave. (1) Douglass had left the United States following the publication in 1845 of his autobiography,...

"White," if "not quite": Irish whiteness in the nineteenth-century Irish-American novel (1).
March 22, 2001... OVER the past ten years, an increasing number of Americanist historians have suggested that Irish and other European immigrants, in an attempt to secure the prosperity and social position that their white skin had not guaranteed them in Europe,...

Dancing between decks: choreographies of transition during Irish migrations to America *.
March 22, 2001... A DANCE CALLED AMERICA NOSTALGIA is the disease of the homesick, a break with a place and a past and an uneasy fit with the new, a wound that has not healed. In his poem "Neither" (1976), Samuel Beckett wrote about the condition of being...

The famine's scars: William Murphy's Ulster and American odyssey.(19th-century Irish famine)(Statistical Data Included)
March 22, 2001... UNTIL very recently, scholars have neglected the Great Famines impact on the northern Irish province of Ulster and especially its impact on Ulsters Protestant inhabitants. This neglect stemmed in part from historians reading of published census...

Miners in migration: the case of nineteenth-century Irish and Irish-American copper miners *.(Statistical Data Included)
March 22, 2001... WHAT forces compelled so many in postfamine Ireland to resettle in North America? With an emigration rate more than double that of any other European country, Ireland in this period has received considerable scholarly attention. (1) Yet most...

Young Irish workers: class implications of men's and women's experiences in gilded age Chicago.(Statistical Data Included)
March 22, 2001... DISCUSSION of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Irish Americans' "class"--their status as well as their behaviors and attitudes concerning class mobility and working-class solidarity--has been vexed and contentious. The topic's inherent...

"Come you all courageously": Irish women in America write home.
March 22, 2001... WHAT we know about immigrants has too often been seen through official lenses. Documentation beyond official sources is scarce because few immigrants conducted their lives with an eye to the biographer. If the world of immigrants is to be...

Relinquishing and reclaiming independence: Irish domestic servants, American middle-class mistresses, and assimilation, 1850-1920.
March 22, 2001... BETWEEN the onset of the Great Famine and the restriction of immigration in the 1920s, some five million Irish people emigrated to North America. Roughly half of these emigrants were female, and most were young and single. (1) In America's...

"Economic pressure" (1936).(painting of Irish emigrants)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2001... Sean Keating, "Economic Pressure" (1936). By permission of the Crawford Municipal Gallery, Cork. Such was the scale of emigration from Ireland in the century after 1830 that deciding whether to stay or leave was a normal part of growing...