This book examines the development of literary constructions of Irish-American identity from the mid-nineteenth century arrival of the Famine generation through

This book examines the development of literary constructions of Irish-American identity from the mid-nineteenth century arrival of the Famine generation through

Gaelicization was a deliberate attempt to reclaim the distinctive identity and civilization of the Irish people. The Irish language was at its core. At the end

Irish American Fiction from World War II to JFK addresses the concerns of Irish America in the post-war era by studying its fiction and the authors who brought