The Irish in the Atlantic World

Description

A new vision of the Irish diaspora within the Atlantic context from the eighteenth century to the present.

The Irish in the Atlantic World presents a transnational and comparative view of the Irish historical and cultural experiences as phenomena transcending traditional chronological, topical, and ethnic paradigms. Edited by David T. Gleeson, this collection of essays offers a robust new vision of the global nature of the Irish diaspora within the Atlantic context from the eighteenth century to the present and makes original inroads for new research in Irish studies.

These essays from an international cast of scholars vary in their subject matter from investigations into links between Irish popular music and the United States—including the popularity of American blues music in Belfast during the 1960s and the influences of Celtic balladry on contemporary singer Van Morrison—to a discussion of the migration of Protestant Orangemen to America and the transplanting of their distinctive non-Catholic organizations. Other chapters explore the influence of American politics on the formation of the Irish Free State in 1922, manifestations of nineteenth-century temperance and abolition movements in Irish communities, links between slavery and Irish nationalism in the formation of Irish identity in the American South, the impact of yellow fever on Irish and black labor competition on Charleston's waterfront, the fate of the Irish community at Saint Croix in the Danish West Indies, and other topics. These multidisciplinary essays offer fruitful explanations of how ideas and experiences from around the Atlantic influenced the politics, economics, and culture of Ireland, the Irish people, and the societies where Irish people settled. Taken collectively, these pieces map the web of connectivity between Irish communities at home and abroad as sites of ongoing negotiation in the development of a transatlantic Irish identity.

Sujets

• HISTORY
• Histoire
• Irish America magazine
• American Committee for Relief in Ireland
• Gaelic American
• Irish Poor Laws
• Atlantic Community
• Atlantic World
• Irish question
• Irish Rebellion of 1798
• Irish republicanism
• Irish National Land League
• Irish Parliamentary Party
• Irish nationalism
• Irish Republic
• Ireland
• Irish Civil War
• Irish Republican Army
• History of the Americas
• History of Europe
• Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association
• Irish Examiner
• Stephen Ireland
• United States
• FL
• KY
• LA
• TN
• MS
• SC
• NC
• AR
• Migration
• VA
• GA
• Europe
• Armée républicaine irlandaise

Informations

• Publié par: University of South Carolina Press
• Date de parution: 16 novembre 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 1
• EAN13: 9781611172201
• Langue: English

Extrait

The Irish in the Atlantic World
The Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World
Sponsored by the Program in the Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World of the College of Charleston
Money, Trade, and Power Edited by Jack P. Greene, Rosemary Brana-Shute, and Randy J. Sparks
The Impact of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World Edited by David P. Geggus
London Booksellers and American Customers James Raven
Memory and Identity Edited by Bertrand Van Ruymbeke and Randy J. Sparks
This Remote Part of the World Bradford J. Wood
The Final Victims James A. McMillin
The Atlantic Economy during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Edited by Peter A. Coclanis
From New Babylon to Eden Bertrand Van Ruymbeke
Saints and Their Cults in the Atlantic World Edited by Margaret Cormack
Who Shall Rule at Home? Jonathan Mercantini
To Make This Land Our Own Arlin C. Migliazzo
Votaries of Apollo Nicholas Michael Butler
Fighting for Honor T. J. Desch Obi
Paths to Freedom Edited by Rosemary Brana-Shute and Randy J. Sparks
Material Culture in Anglo-America Edited by David S. Shields
The Fruits of Exile Edited by Richard Bodek and Simon Lewis
The Irish in the Atlantic World Edited by David T. Gleeson
The Irish in the Atlantic World
Edited by David T. Gleeson
2010 University of South Carolina
Cloth edition published by the University of South Carolina Press, 2010 Ebook edition published in Columbia, South Carolina, by the University of South Carolina Press, 2013
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the cloth edition as follows:
The Irish in the Atlantic world / edited by David T. Gleeson.
p. cm. - (The Carolina lowcountry and the Atlantic world)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-57003-908-9 (cloth : alk. paper)
1. Irish Americans-History. 2. Irish Americans-Social life and customs.
3. Irish Americans-Ethnic identity. 4. Irish-America-History.
5. Irish-America-Social life and customs. 6. Irish-Migrations-History.
7. Ireland-Emigration and immigration-History. 8. America-Emigration and immigration-History. 9. Ireland-Relations-America. 10. America-Relations-Ireland. I. Gleeson, David T.
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ISBN 978-1-61117-220-1 (ebook)
Contents
Acknowledgments
The Irish Atlantic?
David T. Gleeson
Part I: Ireland in the Atlantic World
Mathewite Temperance in Atlantic Perspective
Paul Townend
The Anatomy of Failure: Nineteenth-Century Irish Copper Mining in the Atlantic and Global Economy
William H. Mulligan Jr .
Transatlantic Migrations of Irish Music in the Early Recording Age
Scott Spencer
The Idea of America in the New Irish State, 1922-1960
Bernadette Whelan
Part II: Irish Identity in the Atlantic World
The Transmigrated Soul of Some West Indian Planter : Absenteeism, Slavery, and the Irish National Tale
Susan M. Kroeg
Slavery, Irish Nationalism, and Irish American Identity in the South, 1840-1845
Angela F. Murphy
From the Cabins of Connemara to the Kraals of Kaffirland : Irish Nationalists, the British Empire, and the Boer Fight for Freedom
Bruce Nelson
Kathleen O Brennan and American Identity in the Transatlantic Irish Republican Movement
Catherine M. Burns
Blues Coming down Royal Avenue : Van Morrison s Belfast Blues
Lauren Onkey
Part III: The Irish in the Atlantic World
The Quadripartite Concern of St. Croix: An Irish Catholic Experiment in the Danish West Indies
Orla Power
The Irish and the Formation of British Communities in Early Massachusetts
Marsha L. Hamilton
From Ulster to the Carolinas: John Torrans, John Greg, John Poaug, and Bounty Emigration, 1761-1768
Richard K. MacMaster
The Unacclimated Stranger Should Be Positively Prohibited from Joining the Party : Irish Immigrants, Black Laborers, and Yellow Fever on Charleston s Waterfront
Michael D. Thompson
The Orange Atlantic
Donald M. MacRaild
Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments
This project was conceived and encouraged by Simon Lewis, my codirector of the Program in the Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World (CLAW) when I came to the College of Charleston in the fall of 2002. He has been supportive of it in all kinds of ways through all stages. No one could ask for a better colleague and collaborator. Alexander Moore of the University of South Carolina Press and the fine staff of editors and marketers also deserve a lot of praise for the production of this book. They have guided me through the process with great patience and efficiency. The committee I formed to help run the conference that spawned this book was also very helpful. From the College of Charleston, Dee Dee Joyce, Moore Quinn, Joe Kelly, and Cara Delay put in trojan work in setting up and running the 2007 conference. Their academic and physical labors are much appreciated. David Heisser of the Citadel, Stephen White of the Charleston Historical Society, and Michael De Nie of the State University of West Georgia performed important tasks for the conference as well. Graduate assistants Kate Jenkins and Charles Wexler along with undergraduate intern Dailey Holt helped the conference run very smoothly. Lisa Randle of the CLAW program provided vital administrative support.
Major funding was received from the Humanities Council of South Carolina, the Consul General of Ireland in New York, and the Monsignor Manning Division of the Ancient of Order of Hibernians, Division No. 1, Charleston. At the College of Charleston, financial support was received from Provost Elise Jorgens s office as well as from the offices of Deans David Cohen and Cynthia Lowenthal. There was substantial departmental support from history and other funds from English, anthropology and women s/gender studies. In the community the project also had the financial and moral backing of the South Carolina Irish Historical Society, the Charleston Hibernian Society, and the South Carolina State Board of the Ancient Order of Hibernians. Particular thanks are owed to Stephen White and Donald Williams for their Irish tours and the Honorable Judge Patrick Michael Duffy and Harry D. Cale III for hosting a reception.
Commentators Kerby Miller, Nicholas Canny, John Waters, Patrick Griffin, and Janet Nolan as well as Charleston colleagues Joe Kelly, Simon Lewis, and Cara Delay helped me immensely in choosing the most innovative essays for this work. I also thank the two anonymous referees for their comments, criticism, and suggestions. Here in my new position at Northumbria University, Dean Lynn Dobbs, Chair David Walker, and Research Professor Donald MacRaild have provided the time and support for me to complete this project, and I thank them for that. I also thank Cynthia Lowenthal and Beverly Diamond for allowing me to continue my productive relationship with the College of Charleston. All the contributors to this book have been a pleasure to work with, and I hope it will bring even more attention to their excellent work in this important field of the Irish in the Atlantic World.
The Irish Atlantic?
David T. Gleeson
In July 2000 at a meeting of the American Bar Association held in Dublin, the minister of enterprise and t naiste (deputy prime minister) of the Irish government, Mary Harney, in a speech describing Ireland s relationship with the European Union (EU) and the United States, stated, Geographically we [the Irish people] are closer to Berlin than Boston. But, she continued, spiritually, we are probably a lot closer to Boston than Berlin. 1
The speech focused mainly on the Irish economic model, which Minister Harney described as somewhere between the social system of Europe and the free-enterprise system in America. She explained this spiritual kinship by acknowledging the close historical connections between Ireland and the United States, particularly the fact that millions of Irish immigrants had moved across the Atlantic down the centuries. The speech caused quite a stir in Ireland, an Ireland that, at the time, saw itself as one of the most pro-EU countries in the Union. The main reaction from Irish politicians and the commentariat focused on the impact the speech would have on Ireland s relationship with its European partners, not with the United States. The criticism highlighted the perceived insult to other European countries and/or the fact that Ireland seemed to be endorsing the neoliberal economy of the United States over the European model. No one, however, criticized Harney s description of the continued good relationship with the United States. Politicians and journalists alike, even those concerned about the Americanizing of Ireland s economy and culture, accepted the close historical and contemporary connections between Ireland and America. 2
In 2000 perhaps fresh in many Irish people s minds was the important role President Bill Clinton and the U.S. government had played in the achievement of the 1998 Northern Ireland Good Friday Peace Accord and the fact that almost 25 percent of Ireland s gross domestic product was generated by foreign companies, most of which were American. 3 Or perhaps it was something deeper. Was there an Irish Atlantic World that transcended the ocean to the thirty-odd million North Americans of Irish ancestry? The idea of Atlantic history, as pioneering scholar Bernard Bailyn puts it, began with the Anglo-American alliances of World War I and World War II, but especially of World War II and its aftermath. That war gave us the Atlantic Ch