Eccentric nation : Irish performance in nineteenth-century New York City / Stephen Rohs.

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