Lexington Books
Pages: 214
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Trim: 6¼ x 9½
978-0-7391-8781-4 • Hardback • November 2013 • $128.00 • (£98.00)
978-1-4985-2052-2 • Paperback • November 2015 • $57.99 • (£45.00)
978-0-7391-8782-1 • eBook • November 2013 • $55.00 • (£42.00)
Maura Grace Harrington is an instructor in the English Department at Seton Hall University. Her articles have appeared in many journals including Yeats Eliot Review, Edgar Allan Poe Review, South Carolina Review, and Early Modern Literary Studies.
Marta M. Deyrup is professor/librarian I at Seton Hall University and served for six years as the university’s codirector of women and gender studies. She is the editor of Digital Scholarship and the East-Central European Collections of the New York Public Library Research Libraries and the author of The Vita Constantini as Literary and Linguistic Construct for the Early Slavs.
Foreword: Maura Grace Harrington and Marta M. Deyrup
Introduction: Dermot Quinn
Part I: Irish Americans in the Newark Area
Chapter 1: The Irish in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark—Augustine J. Curley, O.S.B.
Chapter 2: "Keeping the Tradition Alive"—William B. Rogers and Nicole Anderson
Chapter 3: Perspectives on the Easter Rising—Maura Grace Harrington
Part II: Arriving and Thriving
Chapter 4: Irish Immigration to the United States in the 20th Century—Linda Dowling Almeida
Chapter 5: American Irish in Service to Community & Country: A Vocational & New Jersey Perspective—Alan Delozier
Chapter 6: An Irish-American Politician: Governor Richard Hughes—John B. Wefing
Chapter 7: The Writing Irish—Ray O’Hanlon
Part III: The Greater New York/New Jersey Region
Chapter 8: Music in the Mountains: The Irish Catskills and Traditional Music—Brendan Dolan
Chapter 9: “With Pick and Shovel”: Commemorating the Workers Who Died Building the Delaware and Raritan Canal, 1830-1834—Paul Ferris
The editors have compiled a fascinating collection of essays which analyze and interpret the Irish-American experience. The questions asked are the appropriate ones: What does it mean to be an Irish American? Is there an Irish-American identity?. . . .[The book] . . . provides a worthwhile and valuable contribution to Irish-American history.
— New York Irish History
This collection offers new insight into the experience of the Irish in New Jersey. The essays remind us of the Irish contribution to the state's history, culture, and politics. You'll learn something new on every page.
— Terry Golway, Kean University, author of The Irish in America
Maura Harrington and Marta Deyrup’s The Irish-American Experience in New Jersey and Metropolitan New York: Cultural Identity, Hybridity, and Commemoration evinces a profound understanding of the Irish-American milieu and the keen scholarship of the editors and contributors. It is very clear that Harrington and Deyrup are in love with the subject they have chosen to portray with depth, subtlety, and variety. The book will advance our appreciation for these people, their time, and their place in our history.
— Greg Tobin, author of "The Wisdom of St. Patrick" and "The Good Pope"