The global dimensions of Irish identity : race nation, and the popular press, 1840-1880 / Cian T. McMahon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McMahon, Cian T., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Group identity--Ireland.

Group identity.

National characteristics, Irish.

Ireland--Civilization--19th century.

Ireland.

Ireland--History--19th century.

Ireland--Emigration and immigration.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (255 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill, [North Carolina] : The University of North Carolina Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Though Ireland is a relatively small island on the northeastern fringe of the Atlantic, 70 million people worldwide - including some 45 million in the US - claim it as their ancestral home. Cian T. McMahon explores the 19th-century roots of this transnational identity.

Contents:

Acknowledgments

Note on text

Introduction

L'esprit et les lois : Celts and Saxons in Ireland, 1840-1848

A lone, lone spot in the far southern seas : the Irish race in Australia, 1848-1855

Battling the Anglo-Saxon myth : Irish identity in the antebellum United States, 1848-1861

Scarce a battlefield from the north pole to the south : Irish Celts in the American Civil War, 1861-1865

American by nationality yet Irish by race : citizenship in the wake of the civil war, 1865-1880

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

979-88-908467-5-4

979-88-908467-6-1

1-4696-2012-X

OCLC:

913828454