Synopsis
Virtually every aspect of American culture has been influenced by Irish immigrants and their descendants. This encyclopedia tells the full story of the Irish-American experience, covering immigration, assimilation, and achievement.
The Irish have had a significant impact on America across three centuries, helping to shape politics, law, labor, war, literature, journalism, entertainment, business, sports, and science. This encyclopedia explores why the Irish came to America, where they settled, and how their distinctive Irish-American identity was formed. Well-known Irish Americans are profiled, but the work also captures the essence of everyday life for Irish-Americans as they have assimilated, established communities, and interacted with other ethnic groups.
The approximately 200 entries in this comprehensive, one-stop reference are organized into four themes: the context of Irish-American emigration; political and economic life; cultural and religious life; and literature, the arts, and popular culture. Each section offers a historical overview of the subject matter, and the work is enriched by a selection of primary documents.
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About the Author
William E. Watson is Professor of History at Immaculata University, where he also serves as Director of the Duffy's Cut Project. He obtained his PhD is from the University of Pennsylvania (1990). He is coauthor of Massacre at Duffy's Cut: Tragedy and Conspiracy on the Pennsylvania Railroad (The History Press, 2018), Irish Americans: The History and Culture of a People (ABC-Clio Publishers, 2015), and The Ghosts of Duffy's Cut: The Irish Who Died Building America's Most Dangerous Stretch of Railroad (Praeger Publishers, 2006) and author of Tricolor and Crescent: France and the Islamic World (Praeger Publishers, 2003) and
The Collapse of Communism in the Soviet Union (Greenwood Press, 1998).
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