ARLET
214: The Irish in America
Drew University
Summer 2003
M/W:6:30-9:30
Dr. William
Rogers
work: (973)408-3283
Bing Crosby
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Course Requirements/Books/Schedule of Classes/Links of Interest
Course requirements: Course requirements: Class participation, 20%; Book review (2-3 pages) and class presentation, 30%; Final paper, (10-15 pages), 50%. Book(s) review will be an analysis of a work or works--fiction, biography, or historical--concerning a topic relating the course topic, which is then presented to the class. The final paper should explore in depth this topic or another, preferably covered (or at least touched upon) in class, although it may approach it through the use of readings not used in class.
Buffalo Bill Cody
Books
(in order to be read):
Recommended--The Course of Irish History, T.W. Moody/F.X. Martin
The Great Famine, Arthur Gribben
Erin’s Daughters, Hasia Diner
The Irish Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett, Sara Orne Jewett
How the Irish Became White, Noel Ignatiev
Textures of Irish America, Lawrence McCaffrey
The Edge of Sadness, Edwin O’Connor
The New Irish Americans, Ray O’Hanlon
Additional Readings to be distributed in class.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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June 16 / June 18 / June 25 / June 30 /
July 2 / July 7 / July 9/ July 14 / July 16 / July 21 / July 23 / July 28
June 16: Introduction and some questions: “How did the Irish save Civilization and How did they get to the United States?” or “How does a nation of five million have 200 million relatives around the world, and why should it matter to us?” (Read Moody and Martin for background)
June 18: The Early Irish, the Revolution and the Whore of Babylon; begin Gribben
June 23: The Great Hunger—The Bloody Brits and Everlasting Hatred, Gribben;
June 25:
The Great Hunger continued; and the Irish take root: “We are Americans
Now”, begin Diner
George Cohan
July 2: The Civil War, the Fenians, The Catholic Church (i.e., Irish Catholic!) in America and an Irish Mayor in Boston!, Diner.
July 7: Irish Women in the 19th Century, Diner
July 9: The
Irish in Literature, Jewett. Presentations Begin.
John F. Kennedy
July 14: The Irish Become White, Ignatiev
July 16: The Irish Become Respectable, O’Connor and McCaffrey
July 21:
What does being Irish-American really mean? McCaffrey
Interior of an Irish Dwelling in New York in the 1850s from The New York Illustrated News
July 23: The New Irish in America, O’Hanlon
July 28: Conclusion, Final Paper Due.
Mother Jones
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Irish American Publications/Irish American Research Resources/The Great Hunger/
Irish Immigration/AncientIreland/Irish Civil War/Fenians/Irish in the American Civil War/Hugh O'Brien/
Sarah Orne Jewett/The Catholic Church in America/Irish Mobility in America/The Celtic Tiger
Celtic Ray Irish America Magazine
Daniels & O'Keefe publications on Irish America
Colonel Eileen Collins
Irish American Research Resources
NYU Library Archives - Irish America
Paper on Irish American Fertility in 1910
Irish America and the Ulster Conflict 1968-1995
Yellow pages for Irish America and Ireland
A Profile of Americans of Irish Descent
The Wild Geese Today - Erin's Farflung Exiles
Info and links page on Irish Americans
Proposal for Irish American Heritage Museum
Irish Americans: Dates, facts, etc.
Irish American Heritage Month 2003
Animated map showing Irish immigration to America
White House 2000: The Irish Vote
American Irish Historical Society
Links page with many interesting possibilities
Henry Ford
Quinnipiac University's Great Hunger Room
Yahoo Directory The Great Famine
Irish Potato Famine Links Page
Coverage of the Irish Famine in the Times, 1846-1851
Derek Jeter
Irish Immigrants in America in the 19th Century
Irish Immigrants: New York Port Arrival Records, 1846-1851
Irish Immigrants in 19th Century Boston
Colonial Scots-Irish Immigrants
Irish Immigrants and Freed African Slaves
The Search for Irish Immigrants Through the Boston Pilot, 1847 and 1848
The Irish in the Hudson Valley
Sandra Day O'Connor
The Island of Saints and Scholars
The Archaeology of Ancient Ireland
Ancient Ireland - again (different site)
The Geology of Ancient Ireland
A site with oodles of articles about life in ancient Ireland
The Divine Races of Ancient Ireland
James Dolan (CEO of Cablevision)
1921 - 1925: The Irish Civil War and Stabilisation of Northern Ireland
The Irish Civil War and Before - A Peer Critique
BBC News Irish Free State and Civil War
Why There Was a Civil War in Ireland
North Kerry in the Irish Civil War
Constitution of the Irish Free State
1925 - 1932: Building the Irish Free State and Northern Ireland Economies
The Anglo-Irish Treaty, 6 December 1921
First Stamps of the Irish Free State
The Fenians place in Irish History
The Fenians aka the Fenian Brotherhood\
BBC History - The Fenians up to 1870
William Clinton
Irish in the American Civil War
Civil War Irish - Online Resources for Research
Honourable Society of the Irish Brigade
Ambiguous Loyalties: the Boston Irish, Slavery and the Civil War
Daniel Boone
Hugh O'Brien, 1st Irish Mayor of Boston
John Wayne
Judy Garland
The Catholic Church in America
Catholic Pages Directory - Church History - America
The History of Catholic America
American Catholic History Research Center and University Archives
Shawn Fanning (Creator of Napster)
Material Evidence of Irish-Immigrant/Irish-American Acculturation:
The Mystique of Being Irish in New York
Boston Irish Networking Society
William Randolph Hearst
Roar of the Celtic Tiger is silenced
Lessons from a Celtic Tiger Irish Prime Minister delivers address at World Bank
Letter from Ireland - The Celtic Tiger
The Celtic Tiger and the Wild Geese
Ireland: Social tensions deepen as the "Celtic Tiger" staggers
Colonisation and the Celtic Tiger
The First Night in America