Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | Dezell, Maureen |
| Publisher: | Anchor |
| Date: | 3/5/2002 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
Old-time politics, piety, and St. Patrick’s Day parades loom large when the Irishcome to the American mind. None truly represents the complex legacy or contributionsof the nation’s oldest ethnic group, who rank among the most highly educated andaffluent Americans today.
In
Irish America, Maureen Dezell takes a new and invigorating look at Americans of Irish Catholic ancestry—who they are, and how they got thatway. A welcome antidote to so many standard-issue, sentimental representations ofthe Irish in the United States,
Irish America focuses on popular culture as wellas politics; the Irish in the Midwest and West as well as the East; the “new Irish”immigrants; the complicated role of the Church today; and the unheralded heritageof Irish American women. Deftly weaving history, reporting, and the observationsof more than 100 men and women of Irish descent on both sides of the Atlantic, Dezellpresents an insightful and highly readable portrait of a people and a culture.
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