This book explores the story of the Irish in America and 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.
Mathew and his lieutenants opportunistically exploited the complex nest of Irish hopes and fears about emigration in order to ... could be prevented by the sober, industrious cultivation of “waste ground” in Connemara and elsewhere.
A fresh look at a multifaceted minority culture
48 In Louisiana, in another disputed and violent election, the “victory” of the Redeemer candidate for governor, Francis T. Nicholls, was celebrated in New Orleans at St. Patrick's Hall. The Irish had campaigned hard for Nicholls and ...
The Irish in America
See David M. Emmons, Beyond the American Pale: The Irish in the West, 1845–1910 (Norman, OK, 2010), and R. A. Burchell, The San Francisco Irish, 1848–1880 (Berkeley, CA, 1980). Turning toward Illinois, only two outdated works address ...
Thomas 71 Fitzserald, 32 Fitzgerald, 'Colonel, 60 Fulton, Robert 83 Gallagher, Lieutenant, 102 Gallagher, Rev. Dr., 122 Gallagher, R 145 Gillespie, Captain 160 Gorman, Major 160 Hand, Adj. General, 48 Hogan, .
The Irish in New Orleans, 1800-1860
O'Brien, “To Solitude Consigned,” 90–92. For the population statistics, see 55. Between 1830 and 1834, the government rounded up the Tasmanian Aboriginal population and moved them to Flinders Island, which lies in Bass Strait, ...
Beginning with the origins of their population in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the author traces the Scotch-Irish development from Lowland Scotland to Northern Ireland to the American colonies.
A Hidden Phase of American History: Ireland's Part in America's Struggle for Liberty