Kelly, Mary C., 1964-

Ireland's great famine in Irish-American history / Mary Kelly. - 1 online resource (289 pages)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : Irish hunger: Irish American crucible -- Floodtide: framing famine memory between 1845 and 1900 -- Latent memory: constructing Irish-American identity in the early 1900s -- Ethnic progression: selective memory by the mid-1900s -- "Where past and present mingle": roadways to remembrance -- Long threatening: from confrontation to commemoration in the 1990s.

9781442226081 (e-book)


Irish--History--United States--19th century.


Ireland--Emigration and immigration.
Ireland--History--Famine, 1845-1852.
United States--Emigration and immigration.


Electronic books.

E184.I6 / K44 2013eb

973/.049162