The Irish in the Atlantic world [electronic resource] / edited by David T. Gleeson. - Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, c2010. - viii, 341 p. - The Carolina lowcountry and the Atlantic world . - Carolina lowcountry and the Atlantic world. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

9781611172201 (electronic bk.)




Irish Americans--History.
Irish Americans--Social life and customs.
Irish Americans--Ethnic identity.
Irish--History.--America
Irish--Social life and customs.--America
Irish--Migrations--History.


Ireland--Emigration and immigration--History.
America--Emigration and immigration--History.
Ireland--Relations--America.
America--Relations--Ireland.


Electronic books.

E184.I6 / I6845 2010

305.891/62073