In 2006 New York University Press and Glucksman Ireland House NYU launched a copublication series to bring the best new research in Irish and Irish-American Studies into print. Please click on the title or cover image below for further information about that volume.
Edited by J.J. Lee and Marion R. Casey
NYU Press, 736 pages, 70 illustrations
ISBN 081475208X (cloth, publication date: 2/1/2006)
ISBN 0814752187 (paperback, release date: 3/1/2007)
In Making the Irish American, J. J. Lee and Marion R. Casey offer a feast of twenty-nine perspectives on the turbulent, vital, endlessly fascinating story of the Irish in America. Combining original research with reprints of classic works, these essays and articles extend far beyond a survey to offer a truly rich understanding of the Irish immigrant impact on America, and America's impact on the Irish immigrant.
Edited by Philip Fennell and Marie King, introduction by Terry Golway
NYU Press, 272 pages
ISBN 0814727484, Cloth, Publication date: 2/1/2006
The story of John Devoy's 1876 Catalpa rescue is a tale of heroism, creativity, and the triumph of independent spirit in pursuit of freedom. The daily log on board the whaling ship Catalpa begins with the typical recount of a crew intact and a spirit unfettered, but such quiet words deceive the truth of the audacious enterprise that came to be known as one of the most important rescues in Irish-American history. John Devoy's men rescued six Irish political prisoners from the Australian coast, allowing millions of fellow Irishmen and American-Fenians, many of whom secretly financed the dangerous plot, to draw courage from the newly exiled prisoners.
by Hugh F. Kearney
NYU Press, 368 pages
ISBN 0814748007, Cloth, Publication Date: 4/1/2007
What is the Irish nation? Who is included in it? Are its borders delimited by religion, ethnicity, language, or civic commitment? And how should we teach its history? These and other questions are carefully considered by distinguished historian Hugh F. Kearney in Ireland: Contested Ideas of Nationalism and History.
The insightful essays collected here all circle around Ireland, with the first section attending to questions of nationalism and the second addressing pivotal moments in the history and historiography of the isle. Kearney contends that Ireland represents a striking example of the power of nationalism, which, while unique in many ways, provides an illuminating case study for students of the modern world. He goes on to elaborate his revisionist "four nations" approach to Irish history.
Making the Irish American: History & Heritage of the Irish in the United States
John Devoy's Catalpa Expedition
Ireland: Contested Ideas of Nationalism and History