New World Irish: Notes on One Hundred Years of Lives and Letters in American Culture [Paperback]

The book concerns the new World Irish, tracing the developing profile of the Irish in America from the Famine forward. The studies draw their material from roughly a one-hundred-year arc of Irish presence and relevance in American life and they would serve as American as well as Irish-American studies.Among Cromwell's Children: The Irish in Yankee New England Requiem for the St. John : Thoreau's 'The Shipwreck' as Irish Famine Narrative? Blighted Prospects: Irish Historical Haunting in America? Fair and Funeral: Henry O'Clarence McCarthy and the American Fenian Years? Broom and Bridget: The Irish Servant and New England Households? Harold Frederic, The Irish, and The Damnation of Theron Ware ? The Liffey to the Red River: Demented Mentors in Scott Fitzgerald's Absolution and Joyce's 'The Sisters' John Ford, the Irish, and His Cavalry Trilogy Jack Conroy, the Irish-American Left, and the Radical Irish Legacy Dublin to Bodega Bay: The Dark Side of Alfred Hitchcock's Juno and the Paycock 'Missouri Sequence': Brian Coffey's St. Louis Years Migration and Memory: Irish Poetry in the U.S.? The Celtic Carnivalesque and Muriel Rukeyser's Irish Journey of Passion and Transformation 'He's Irish, and He Broods Easy' - John McNulty and the Irish Cohort at The New Yorker

WINNER OF THE MICHAEL J. DURKAN PRIZE FOR BOOKS ON IRISH CULTURE!

New World Irish advances scholarship on Irish-America in several ways: sometimes by unsettling conventional wisdom, sometimes by identifying authors and themes that have been overlooked, and always with perceptive and original readings of a literature that is still in the process of being retrieved and defined. This is a thoughtful and useful contribution to both Irish and American Studies. - James Silas Rogers, Editor, New Hibernia Review

Underlined by wide reading and deep sympathies, Morgan's New World Irish is a quite splendid work of literary scholarship. - Eamonn Wall, author of Writing the Irl³(