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Eccentric nation : Irish performance in nineteenth-century New York City / Stephen Rohs.
Van Pelt Library F128.9.I6 R64 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rohs, Stephen A. (Stephen Albert)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- National Book Committee.
- Irish Americans--New York (State)--New York--Ethnic identity--History--19th century.
- Irish Americans.
- Irish Americans--New York (State)--New York--Intellectual life--19th century.
- Performance art--Social aspects--New York (State)--New York--History--19th century.
- Performance art.
- Nationalism--New York (State)--New York--History--19th century.
- Nationalism.
- Community life--New York (State)--New York--History--19th century.
- Community life.
- City and town life--New York (State)--New York--History--19th century.
- City and town life.
- Popular culture--New York (State)--New York--History--19th century.
- Popular culture.
- Ethnic relations.
- History.
- Social conditions.
- Intellectual life.
- Ethnicity.
- New York (N.Y.)--Intellectual life--19th century.
- New York (N.Y.).
- New York (N.Y.)--Social conditions--19th century.
- New York (N.Y.)--Ethnic relations--History--19th century.
- New York (State)--New York.
- Physical Description:
- 262 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, [2009]
- Contents:
- Resistance as community : "the bold soldier boy" and the know nothing crisis
- Cultural minstrelsy's romantic Irish : The Colleen Bawn, accommodation, and the marketplace
- Remembered traditions : the Galloglach, "Boyne water," and the 1871 Orange Riot
- The Mulligan guard ball : Irish minstrels and urban spectacles.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780838641385
- 0838641385
- OCLC:
- 275150942
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