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After the Flood: Irish America, 1945-1960

After the Flood: Irish America, 1945-1960

Rogers, James Silas
O'Brien, Matthew J.

Paperback

Series: Irish Abroad

20th Century United States HistoryGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral World History

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ISBN10: 0716529882
ISBN13: 9780716529880
Publisher: Irish Academic Press
Published: Jun 1 2009
Pages: 237
Language: English
The essays in this volume - now in paperback - examine diverse aspects of the Irish-American community during the postwar years and cover both the immigrant community within the US - which witnessed a surge in immigration from Ireland - and the subsequent expressions of an Irish identity among later generation ethnics. The book considers both social and political history, such as ethnic anti-Communism and American responses to Partition, as well as significant representations of Irish life in popular culture, such as The Last Hurrah (1956) or The Quiet Man (1952). The study shows that the Irish-American community was lively and, in many ways, dissimilar from 'mainstream' American life in this period. The supposedly deracinated descendants of earlier immigrants were nonetheless well aware that the larger culture perceived something distinctive about being Irish, and throughout this period they actively sought to define - often in deflected ways - just what that distinctiveness could mean.

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