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Author Milner, Dan, author.

Title The unstoppable Irish : songs and integration of the New York Irish, 1783-1883 / Dan Milner.

Publication Info. Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2019]
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 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  305.891 MIL    Check Shelf
Description xii, 294 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-284) and index.
Contents Introduction -- Prologue : Colonial New York -- The New York Irish in the New Republic -- Irish famine and American nativism -- The Civil War and the draft riots of 1863 -- The road to respectability -- Conclusion.
Summary "The Unstoppable Irish follows the changing fortunes of New York's Irish Catholics, commencing with the evacuation of British military forces in late 1783 and concluding one hundred years later with the completion of the initial term of the city's first Catholic mayor. During that century, Hibernians first coalesced and then rose in uneven progression from being a variously dismissed, despised, and feared foreign group to ultimately receiving de facto acceptance as constituent members of the city's population. Dan Milner presents evidence that the Catholic Irish of New York gradually integrated (came into common and equal membership) into the city populace rather than assimilated (adopted the culture of a larger host group). Assimilation had always been an option for Catholics, even in Ireland. In order to fit in, they needed only to adopt mainstream Anglo-Protestant identity. But the same virile strain within the Hibernian psyche that had overwhelmingly rejected the abandonment of Gaelic Catholic being in Ireland continued to hold forth in Manhattan and the community remained largely intact. A novel aspect of Milner's treatment is his use of song texts in combination with period news reports and existing scholarship to develop a fuller picture of the Catholic Irish struggle. Products of a highly verbal and passionately musical people, Irish folk and popular songs provide special insight into the popularly held attitudes and beliefs of the integration epoch." -- Publisher's description
Subject Irish -- New York (State) -- New York -- Music -- History and criticism.
Irish Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Music -- History and criticism.
Irish -- New York (State) -- New York -- Songs and music -- History and criticism.
Popular music -- New York (State) -- New York -- To 1901 -- History and criticism.
Irish -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
Irish Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
Immigrants -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
New York (N.Y.) -- Emigration and immigration -- History.
Emigration and immigration. (OCoLC)fst00908690
Immigrants. (OCoLC)fst00967712
Irish. (OCoLC)fst00978902
Irish Americans. (OCoLC)fst00978933
Irish Americans -- Music. (OCoLC)fst01425676
Irish -- Music. (OCoLC)fst00978912
Popular music. (OCoLC)fst01071422
New York (State) -- New York. (OCoLC)fst01204333
Chronological Term To 1901
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form: Online version: Milner, Dan, author. Unstoppable Irish Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2019] 9780268105761 (DLC) 2019003433
ISBN 9780268105730 (hardcover alkaline paper)
0268105731 (hardcover alkaline paper)
9780268105747 (paperback alkaline paper)
026810574X (paperback alkaline paper)
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