The only comprehensive study of Irish immigrants in the
nineteenth-century South, this book makes a valuable contribution
to the story of the Irish in America and to our understanding of
southern culture.
The Irish who migrated to the Old South struggled to make a new
home in a land where they were viewed as foreigners and were set
apart by language, high rates of illiteracy, and their own
self-identification as temporary exiles from famine and British
misrule. They countered this isolation by creating vibrant, tightly
knit ethnic communities in the cities and towns across the South
where they found work, usually menial jobs. Finding strength in
their communities, Irish immigrants developed the confidence to
raise their voices in the public arena, forcing native southerners
to recognize and accept them--first politically, then socially.
The Irish integrated into southern society without abandoning
their ethnic identity. They displayed their loyalty by fighting for
the Confederacy during the Civil War and in particular by opposing
the Radical Reconstruction that followed. By 1877, they were a
unique part of the "Solid South." Unlike the Irish in other parts
of the United States, the Irish in the South had to fit into a
regional culture as well as American culture in general. By
following their attempts to become southerners, we learn much about
the unique experience of ethnicity in the American South.
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