New Perspectives on the Irish Diaspora

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Charles Fanning
SIU Press, 2000 - History - 329 pages

In New Perspectiveson the Irish Diaspora, Charles Fanning incorporates eighteen fresh perspectives on the Irish diaspora over three centuries and around the globe. He enlists scholarly tools from the disciplines of history, sociology, literary criticism, folklore, and culture studies to present a collection of writings about the Irish diaspora of great variety and depth.

 

Contents

Part Three
7
Part Five
8
Poems
28
Joseph Mitchells Irish Imagination
52
Two Poems
65
Rituals of Separation
117
Sources for Understanding
131
Images of the Irish
152
Part Four
187
Reflections on Angelas Ashes
236
Irish Americans in Gaelic Fiction
253
Bard of Armagh
266
Contributors
317
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About the author (2000)

Charles Fanning is director of Irish and Irish Immigration Studies at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. His books includeThe Exiles of Erin: Nineteenth-Century Irish-American Fiction, winner of the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation; The Irish Voice in America, winner of the Book Prize for Literary Criticism and Related Fields from the American Conference for Irish Studies; and Finley Peter Dunne and Mr. Dooley: The Chicago Years, winner of the Frederick Jackson Turner Award of the Organization of American Historians.