The Irish in the Atlantic world / edited by David T. Gleeson.

• Superior document: The Carolina lowcountry and the Atlantic world
• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Gleeson, David T.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Carolina lowcountry and the Atlantic world.
• Physical Description: viii, 341 p.

Table of Contents

The Irish Atlantic? / David T. Gleeson -- 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 -- "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 -- 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.