Rethinking the Irish in the American South : beyond rounders and reelers / edited by Bryan Albin Giemza.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Giemza, Bryan Albin.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Irish--Southern States--History.

Irish.

Popular culture--Southern States.

Popular culture.

Irish Americans--Southern States--History.

Irish Americans.

Southern States--Civilization--Irish influences.

Southern States.

Ireland--Emigration and immigration--History.

Ireland.

Southern States--Emigration and immigration--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (232 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2013.

Summary:

Studies of the Irish presence in America have tended to look to the main corridors of emigration, and hence outside the American South. Yet the Irish constituted a significant minority in the region. Indeed, the Irish fascination expresses itself in Southern context in powerful, but disparate, registers: music, literature, and often, a sense of shared heritage. Rethinking the Irish in the South aims to create a readable, thorough introduction to the subject, establishing new ground for areas of inquiry. These essays offer a revisionist critique of the Irish in the South, calling

Contents:

Introduction / Bryan Albin Giemza

Questions of historical definition.

"A lengthening chain in the shape of memories": the Irish and Southern culture / William R. Ferris

After strange kin: further reflections on the relations between Ireland and the American South / Kieran Quinlan

Irish migration to the colonial South: a plea for a forgotten topic / Patrick Griffin

Manipulating culture: influence, reconsidered.

Tara, the O'Haras, and the Irish gone with the wind / Geraldine Higgins

Transatlantic rites of passage in the friendship and fiction of Eudora Welty and Elizabeth Bowen / Kathryn Stelmach Artuso

Shared traditions: Irish and Appalachian ballads and whiskey songs / Emily Kader

Blacks and Celts on the Riverine frontiers: the roots of American popular music / Christopher J. Smith

Ideology and ambivalence.

Another "lost cause": the Irish in the South remember the Confederacy / David T. Gleeson

On the uses of slavery: the Irish in the South and Civil War rhetoric / Bryan Albin Giemza

Coda : Smoke 'n' guns: a preface to a poem about marginal souths, and then the poem / Conor O'Callaghan.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-62103-952-8

OCLC:

820450881