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Title: Irish America : Coming Into Clover by Maureen Dezell ISBN: 0-385-49596-X Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 05 March, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (12 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: What makes the American Irish "tick"
Comment: Normally I regard sociological studies as palatable as a tongue depressor. However, this is rivetting, readable, and entertaining. Clearly my interest was piqued because it explores in comprehensive detail my ethnic group. The American Irish (or Irish Americans) will find this a very compelling and satisfying read.
The book studies the Irish diaspora in the various areas of this vast country and points out how the different locations and parallel immigrations resulted in American Irish of significantly varying success, acclimation, and temperment (e.g.: San Francisco v. Chicago v. NY v. Boston). However, regardless of their differing opportunities Denzell notes the seemingly subtle but enduring culture and driving forces which endure among the American Irish -- such as a reluctance to feel secure with material success, gregariousness, and restrained demonstration of emotion. What is perhaps most interesting is that Denzell points out how most Americans, and even the American Irish, are unaware of any specifically Irish American cultural patterns,though they are pervasive and inescapable, if seemingly oblique.
Reading this book I came to understand the motivations for my own behavior much better. Heretofore I thought they were simply the quirks of my own family; reading Denzell one is struck by the strength of these historic roots. While the book describes us, warts and all, it leaves the American Irish reader with a satisfying sense of comfort and pride (not that we'd ever publicly admit it).
Rating: 5
Summary: Finally, The Truth about Irish America
Comment: Maureen Dezell's book is not only insightful and informative, it is absolute joy to read. Maureen has a wonderful combination of wit and candor. As a second generation Irish American, it provided me with a better understanding of my culture, my family, and myself. Finally, someone has taken an in-depth and thorough look at the important contributions of Irish Americans.
Rating: 5
Summary: Oh, It's So True!
Comment: I'm a Jew from New York, married to someone from South Boston. One of my familys closest friends (now regrettably desceased) came to the US from Belfast at the age of 10. Maureen Dezell has great interviews and made me laugh because I can see all of what she is talking about. I also have friends in Toastmasters from Ireland, and look forward to visiting in 2004. Then I can see the other side of Maureen Dezell's book. The book can be read in a quiet evening. Think of a deep psychological tome, only very readable and funny.
Her description of Michael Flatley and Riverdance keeps popping up.
No, I wont tell you. Read the book!
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Title: Irish in America, The by Michael Coffey ISBN: 0786885432 Publisher: Hyperion Pub. Date: 17 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: 1001 Things Everyone Should Know About Irish-American History by Edward T. O'Donnell ISBN: 0767906861 Publisher: Broadway Pub. Date: 26 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Irish on the Inside: In Search of the Soul of Irish America by Tom Hayden ISBN: 1859844774 Publisher: Verso Books Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America by Kerby A. Miller ISBN: 0195051874 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: January, 1988 List Price(USD): $21.50 |
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Title: Erin's Daughters in America: Irish Immigrant Women in the Nineteenth Century by Hasia R. Diner ISBN: 0801828724 Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr Pub. Date: January, 1984 List Price(USD): $20.95 |
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