Irish America

Few writers have asked how the notion of an Irish-American ethnic identity in contemporary America can be reconciled with five, six, or seven generations of intermarriage and assimilation over the last century and a half. This study, based on interviews with 500 people of Irish ancestry, aims to discover in what senses the present-day descendants of nineteenth-century Irish immigrants possess distinctive social practices and ways of seeing the world.

• | Author: Reginald Byron
• | Publisher: OUP Oxford
• | Publication Date: Feb 24, 2000
• | Number of Pages: 328 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0198233558
• | ISBN-13: 9780198233558