The Irish-American Experience in New Jersey and Metropolitan by Marta Deyrup,Maura Grace Harrington,Linda Dowling

By Marta Deyrup,Maura Grace Harrington,Linda Dowling Almeida,Nicole Anderson,Augustine J. Curley,Alan Delozier,Brendan Dolan,Paul Ferris,Ray O'Hanlon,Dermot Quinn,William B. Rogers,John B. Wefing

This booklet is a set of 9 essays exploring the Irish-American event within the New Jersey and long island metropolitan zone, either traditionally and this day. The essays position the neighborhood Irish-American adventure within the wider context of immigration experiences, assimilation, and ancient conception. utilizing case stories, interviews, scholarly study in fundamental old records and concept, and first-hand adventure, the authors delve into what it has intended, and ability, to be Irish American within the New Jersey and manhattan quarter, projecting what this ethnic identification will represent in future years. Representing a number of scholarly disciplines, from archivists; to historians; to attorneys; to students of literature and theology; the authors proportion their very own distinctive views at the importance of the contributions of Irish-Americans to American lifestyles in a variety of arenas. every one bankruptcy is interdisciplinary, revealing the interconnections between cultural heritage, biography, modern occasions, and literary appreciation. it truly is via those intersections of disciplines, of earlier and current, of person and group, that we will be able to most sensible learn and have fun with the ways in which Irish-Americans have formed lifestyles within the New Jersey/New York sector during the last centuries.

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