Between raid and rebellion : the Irish in Buffalo and Toronto, 1867-1916 / William Jenkins.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Jenkins, William, 1972- author.

Series:

• McGill-Queen's studies in ethnic history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Irish--Ontario--Toronto--History.
• Irish--New York (State)--Buffalo--History.
• Irish Americans--New York (State)--Buffalo--History.
• Immigrants--Ontario--Toronto--History.
• Immigrants--New York (State)--Buffalo--History.
• Irish--Ethnic identity.
• Irish.
• Immigrants.
• History.
• Irish Americans.
• Toronto (Ont.)--Historical geography.
• Buffalo (N.Y.)--Historical geography.
• New York (State)--Buffalo.
• Ontario--Toronto.

Physical Description:

xix, 511 pages ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Irish in Buffalo and Toronto, 1867-1916

Place of Publication:

Montréal : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2013]

Summary:

In Between Raid and Rebellion, William Jenkins compares the lives and allegiances of Irish immigrants and their descendants in one American and one Canadian city between the era of the Fenian raids and the 1916 Easter Rising. Highlighting the experiences of immigrants from Ulster to Toronto and from Munster to Buffalo, he distinguishes what it meant to be Irish in a loyal dominion within Britain's empire and in a republic whose self-confidence knew no bounds. Jenkins pays close attention to the transformations that occurred within the Irish communities in these cities during this fifty-year period, from residential patterns to social mobility and political attitudes. Exploring their experiences in workplaces, homes, churches, and meeting halls, he argues that while various social, cultural, and political networks were crucial to the realization of Irish mobility and respectability in North America by the early twentieth century, place-related circumstances linked to wider national loyalties and diasporic concerns. With the question of Irish home rule animating debates throughout the period, Toronto's unionist sympathizers presented a marked contrast to Buffalo's nationalist agitators. Although the Irish had acclimated to life in then-new world cities, their sense of feeling Irish had not faded to the degree so often assumed. A groundbreaking comparative analysis, Between Raid and Rebellion draws upon perspectives from social and urban history and urban geography to enhance our understanding of the Irish experiences in these centres and the process by which immigrants settle into new urban environments. Book jacket.

Contents:

• 1 Introduction: Irish Immigrants and Questions of Place 3
• Part 1 Irish Lives, Places, and Identities in Late Victorian Buffalo and Toronto
• 2 Nineteenth-Century Buffalo and Toronto and the Contexts of Irish Immigration 19
• 3 Known Groups: Patterns of Work, Residence, and Everyday Survival 55
• 4 Pews and Parades: Institutions, Networks, and Social Encounters 107
• 5 Wards and Votes: The Irish and Their Political Arenas 144
• 6 From Misrule to Rome Rule: Irish Diaspora Politics in the Post-Ridgeway Era 181
• Part 2 Continuities and Transitions in the Early Twentieth Century
• 7 Channels, Niches, and Preserves: Occupations and Careers in the Early Twentieth Century 223
• 8 Lodges and Lace Curtains: Homes and Neighbourhoods, c. 1900-15 264
• 9 Prevailing Threads: Diasporic Nationalism and Unionism, c. 1893-1916 306.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [449]-489) and index.

Other Format:

Jenkins, William, 1972-, author. Between raid and rebellion.

ISBN:

• 9780773540958
• 0773540954

OCLC:

793221961