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Rethinking the Irish in the American South

Rethinking the Irish in the American South beyond rounders and reelers / [electronic resource] : edited by Bryan Albin Giemza. - Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2013] - 1 online resource (viii, 223 pages )

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

9781621039525 1621039528


Irish Americans--History.--Southern States
Popular culture--Southern States.
Irish--History.--Southern States


Southern States--Emigration and immigration--History.
Ireland--Emigration and immigration--History.
Southern States--Civilization--Irish influences.


Electronic books.

F220.I6 / R48 2013

305.8916/2073