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Irish migrants in new communities: Seeking the Fair Land? comprises
the second collection of essays by these editors exploring fresh
aspects and perspectives on the subject of the Irish diaspora. This
volume, edited by Mairtin O Cathain and Micheal O hAodha, develops
many of the oral history themes of the first book and concentrates
more on issues surrounding the adaptation of migrants to new or
host environments and cultures. These new places often have a
jarring effect, as well as a welcoming air, and the Irish bring
their own interpretations, hostilities, and suspicions, all of
which are explored in a fascinating and original number of new
perspectives.
FORGETTING IRELAND is both a history and mystery, a story of
western Ireland's Connemara coast and of Graceville, a small town
in western Minnesota. In 1880, at the height of Ireland's second
famine, a ship of paupers was sent from Galway to take up land
granted them by a Catholic bishop in Minnesota. There they
encountered the worst winter in the state's history and nearly
froze to death in shanties on the prairie. National and
international newspapers featured their plight as the welfare
scandal of the year, and priests and politicians traded accusations
as to who was responsible. The immigrants were at last removed from
the colony; their name became the town's shorthand for lying,
drunken failures. By chance more than a century later, Bridget
Connelly, who grew up in Graceville, discovers her Connemara past.
As Connelly uncovers the deliberately suppressed history of her
family's emigration, she exposes an old scandal that surrounded the
settling of the land around Graceville, one that pitted Masons,
Protestants, Germans, and Yankees against Irish Catholics -- and
one that set lace-curtain Irish against the Connemara paupers. She
also learns of an archbishop who was, according to farmer lore,
'worse than Jesse James'. In this compelling combination of history
and memoir, Connelly tells stories of an epochal blizzard, a famous
Irish bard, an infamous Irish woman pirate, feuding frontier
communities, and an archbishop's questionable legacy. She also
learns why her family tried so hard to forget Ireland.
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