Irish America: Coming Into Clover (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780385495967)

Old-time politics, piety, and St. Patrick's Day parades loom large when the Irish come to the American mind. None truly represents the complex legacy or contributions of the nation's oldest ethnic group, who rank among the most highly educated and affluent Americans today.

In Irish America, Maureen Dezell takes a new and invigorating look at Americans of Irish Catholic ancestry--who they are, and how they got that way. A welcome antidote to so many standard-issue, sentimental representations of the Irish in the United States, Irish America focuses on popular culture as well as politics; the Irish in the Midwest and West as well as the East; the "new Irish" immigrants; the complicated role of the Church today; and the unheralded heritage of Irish American women. Deftly weaving history, reporting, and the observations of more than 100 men and women of Irish descent on both sides of the Atlantic, Dezell presents an insightful and highly readable portrait of a people and a culture.

Author: Maureen Dezell
ISBN-10: 038549596X
ISBN-13: 9780385495967
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 03/05/2002
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.23w x 0.60d

Review Citation(s):
Entertainment Weekly 03/29/2002 pg. 67