Looking for Jimmy : : A Search For Irish America / / Peter Quinn.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
• VerfasserIn: Quinn, Peter,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.)

In this stunning work chronicling the author’s exploration of his own past—and the lives of many hundreds of thousands of nameless immigrants who struggled alongside his own ancestors—Peter Quinn paints a brilliant new portrait of the Irish-American men and women whose evolving culture and values continue to play such a central role in all of our identities as Americans. In Quinn’s hands, the Irish stereotype of “Paddy” gives way to an image of “Jimmy”—an archetypal Irish-American. From Irish immigration to modern politics, Quinn vibrantly weaves together the story of a remarkable people and their immeasurable contribution to American history and culture.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- I. FAMILY AND MEMORY -- Looking for Jimmy -- In Search of the Banished Children -- The Skillins -- The Perils of Pat -- Stones of Memory -- II. POLITICS & PLACE -- Plunkitt of Tammany -- Local Politics, Irish-American Style -- Life of the Party -- Civil Service -- The Bronx is Burning -- Cast a Cold Eye: William Kennedy's Albany -- III. FAITH AND IMAGINATION -- Confessions of a Bronx Irish-Catholic -- Sic Transit -- The Catholic Imagination -- Holy Orders -- City of God, City of Man -- IV. SILENCE AND HISTORY -- The Triumph of Bridget Such-a-One -- An Interpretation of Silences -- Closets Full of Bones -- Lost and Found -- A Famine Remembrance -- CONCLUSION -- Irish America at the Millennium: How the Irish Stayed Irish