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Irish America (Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology)
Irish America - Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology Author:Reginald Byron Few writers have asked how the notion of an Irish-American ethnic identity in contemporary America can be reconciled with five, six, or seven generations of intermarriage and assimilation over the last century and a half. This study, based on interviews with 500 people of Irish ancestry, aims to discover in what senses the present-day descendant... more »s of nineteenth-century Irish immigrants possess distinctive social practices and ways of seeing the world.« less