The Irish in New England
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The Irish in New England
This publication is a collection of papers presented at the Dublin Seminar of New England Folklife conference in June of 2012. Presented in this volume is a range of Irish experiences in New England from the eighteenth century to the twentieth that reveal moments in the immigrant experience and long process of acculturation.
The following is a list of the title and author of each paper: New Ireland to New England: The McCormick Family’s Peregrination from Ulster to New Brunswick to the Boston States, 1822 – 1935 by Donald R. Friary, Irish Labor Unrest on an Early Massachusetts Railroad by Katheryn P Viens, Irish Influence in Gild Age Newport by John F. Quinn, “An Enemy to this country”: Rev. John Houston and the Revolutionary Culture War among New Hampshire’s Irish Presbyterians by Peter E. Gilmore, Wemms et al.: The Enlisted Men at the Boston Massacre by J. L. Bell, The Irish in Rhode Island by Robert W. Hayman, Irish Immigrant Families in New England and Ethnic Inheritance by Jonathan Keljik, The Greening of Norwood: Irish Migration and Life in a Massachusetts Town by Patricia J. Fanning, Faces and Makers: The Irish Presence in Eighteenth-Century Boston Furniture and Silver by Gerald W.R. Ward, John Brenon: The Saga of an Eighteenth-Century Irish Showman by Peter Benes, David Claypoole Johnston and the Boston Irish, 1825 – 1865 by Jack Larkin.
