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A land of dreams : ethnicity, nationalism, and the Irish in Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, and Maine, 1880-1923 /

"Wherever they settled, immigrants from Ireland and their descendants shaped and reshaped their understanding of being Irish in response to circumstances in both the old and new worlds. In A Land of Dreams, Patrick Mannion analyzes and compares the evolution of Irish identity in three communiti...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mannion, Patrick (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2018]
Colección:McGill-Queen's studies in ethnic history. 46.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: the Irish diaspora in comparative perspective
  • The setting: St. John's, Newfoundland; Halifax, Nova Scotia; and Portland, Maine
  • Everyday Irishness: associational life, 1880-1910
  • Charitable relief, the Land League, and home rule nationalism, 1880-1891
  • The changing face of ethnicity: waning nationalism and the Catholic Church
  • Reinvented nationalism: the Third Home Rule Bill, the Ulster Crisis, and the First World War, 1911-1918
  • An ethnic resurgence: engagement with Irish nationalism, 1919-1923
  • Conclusion: understanding Irish ethnicity in the diaspora. Appendices : Occupational categories
  • Biographical details of members of the Portland Ancient Order of Hibernians, 1912
  • Traceable members of the Portland Land League, 1881-1882
  • Provisional dominion council of the self-determined for Ireland League of Newfoundland, October 1920
  • Names and occupations of the 1920 Portland Friends of Irish Freedom Executive.