Eire-Ireland: a Journal of Irish Studies articles from March 2002

Eire-Ireland: a Journal of Irish Studies archives from March 2002

Editor's introduction.
March 22, 2002... In the course of the twentieth century, the American Irish overcame most of the discrimination and impoverishment that had characterized their history in the nineteenth century. With the arrival in the United States of the "new immigrants" from...

Local. (Poems).(Poem)
March 22, 2002... LOCAL In an Irish pub, vatican of stout and fags, I travel back a family generation, to the land of an honest man's failing. With such no other island is so richly endowed. I myself was many years inclined...

On Holiday: County Clare. (Poems).(Poem)
March 22, 2002... ON HOLIDAY: COUNTY CLARE Last night in the pub at the bar with the village charmers, and truly charming they were--word and eye-- on the very street under which the Atlantic has millenia since carved its...

As Memory. (Poems).(Poem)
March 22, 2002... AS MEMORY I believe I will not be blown away tonight from the corner of this fine high house in Ireland. I believe the rain --nightmare hands of it long-fingered grasping from the roofline--will not pinch the...

In the shadow of a grain elevator: a portrait of an Irish neighborhood in Buffalo, New York, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
March 22, 2002... THE creation of the immigrant neighborhood is one of the central features of American urbanization since the nineteenth century. Irish settlements in North America since the early 1800s have been analyzed with depictions of various "Irishtowns"...

Transatlantic connections and the sharp edge of the great depression.
March 22, 2002... IRISH transatlantic migration has inspired a number of impressive works in a variety of fields, from the humanities to the social sciences. Yet the vast majority of these accounts end early in the twentieth century, often immediately after...

Culture, commodity, and Cead Mile Failte: U.S. and Irish tourist films as a vision of Ireland.
March 22, 2002... IN 1966, Bord Failte, the Irish Tourist Board, sponsored a documentary intended to update the international profile of "The Emerald Isle." Robert Monks's 1966 Ireland: The New Convention Country would emphasize the modern facilities available...

Nationalism, sentiment, and economics: relations between Ireland and Irish America in the postwar years.
March 22, 2002... Ireland is a country whose sons and daughters hold her dearly above all, and it is evident in your great country as in others, that their love does not wither because the soil beneath their feet is foreign soil. St Patrick planted more than the...

New York State's "Great Irish Famine Curriculum": a report.
March 22, 2002... THE Great Irish Famine Curriculum was founded on initiatives that came from both sides of the narrow street in Albany that separates the chambers of the New York State Legislature from the New York State Education Department. In 1996, the State...

The New Jersey Famine Curriculum: a report.
March 22, 2002... The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it. OSCAR WILDE Is 1995, when I first learned that the New Jersey Holocaust Education Commission had been empowered by the legislature to consider course materials on "a wide range of...

The Irish Famine in American School Curricula.
March 22, 2002... EXAMINING how people remember the past has become for historians as important as analyzing the events on which those collective memories are based. (1) On one level, the trend extends the established method of intradisciplinary self-critique...

Contemporary Catholic and Protestant Irish America: social identities, forgiveness, and attitudes toward The Troubles.
March 22, 2002... The intractability of ethnic conflicts is due in part to their selective focus on the past. Images of the past are used to legitimate the present social order, but such order presupposes shared memories, and as memories diverge, a society's...

The process of migration and the reinvention of self: the experiences of returning Irish emigrants.
March 22, 2002... IRISH migration at the end of the twentieth century encompasses complex and multidimensional processes. Whereas Irish emigrants were once drawn almost exclusively from the agricultural and laborer classes, in the closing decades of the...

Cover.
March 22, 2002... Patrick Hennessy's Exiles may seem an unusual choice for the cover of an issue on twentieth-century Irish America. The apocalyptic overtones of the scene--the wasted, desert-like terrain; the overcast sky; the stark, isolated, aimless, and...