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"This book examines the emergence of the Irish-American diaspora press and its contribution to the political and cultural lives of Irish-Americans over the course of the last two centuries"--

Irish American newspapers --- History.

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A case began to unfold like nothing the quaint Detroit suburban area of Orchard Lake had ever seen. In the hours following a near head-on collision between a mysterious sedan and an on-duty patrolman, the frightening truth behind the speeding car's driver would be discovered. The vehicle was littered with weapons, drugs, and cash, yet these items weren't even the beginning. The most menacing item law enforcement could imagine was made of paper. Found in Chester Wheeler Campbell's possession was a set of meticulously detailed assassin's notebooks - containing the names of unsolved murder victims and a list of planned targets. It was a time when outlandish courtroom drama, gangland executions, corruption investigations, and scandals were all part of the twisted world where a Motor City Hit Man could thrive. This is the true tale not only of a murderer for hire, but also the parallel people and occurrences that helped warp a stressed socio-economic landscape of Detroit into a drug fueled organized crime controlled underworld.

Mafia --- Irish American criminals --- Criminals, Irish American --- Criminals --- Maffia --- Organized crime

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""They will melt like snowflakes in the sun,"" said one observer of nineteenth-century Irish emigrants to America. Not only did they not melt, they formed one of the most extensive and persistent ethnic subcultures in American history. Dennis Clark now offers an insightful analysis of the social means this group has used to perpetuate its distinctiveness amid the complexity of American urban life. Basing his study on family stories, oral interviews, organizational records, census data, radio scripts, and the recollections of revolutionaries and intellectuals, Clark offers an absorbing panorama

Irish American families --- Irish Americans --- Families, Irish American --- Families --- Ethnology --- Irish --- Ethnic identity. --- Philadelphia (Pa.) --- Social conditions.

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Irish Americans in literature. --- Irish Americans --- American fiction --- Ethnology --- Irish --- American literature --- Intellectual life. --- Irish-American authors --- History and criticism. --- Ireland --- In literature. --- Irish American authors

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After all the green beer has been poured and the ubiquitous shamrocks fade away, what does it mean to be Irish American besides St. Patrick’s Day? Who’s Your Paddy traces the evolution of “Irish” as a race-based identity in the U.S. from the 19th century to the present day. Exploring how the Irish have been and continue to be socialized around race, Jennifer Nugent Duffy argues that Irish identity must be understood within the context of generational tensions between different waves of Irish immigrants as well as the Irish community’s interaction with other racial minorities.Using historic and ethnographic research, Duffy sifts through the many racial, class, and gendered dimensions of Irish-American identity by examining three distinct Irish cohorts in Greater New York: assimilated descendants of nineteenth-century immigrants; “white flighters” who immigrated to postwar America and fled places like the Bronx for white suburbs like Yonkers in the 1960s and 1970s; and the newer, largely undocumented migrants who began to arrive in the 1990s. What results is a portrait of Irishness as a dynamic, complex force in the history of American racial consciousness, pertinent not only to contemporary immigration debates but also to the larger questions of what it means to belong, what it means to be American.

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations. --- HISTORY / General. --- Irish Americans --- African Americans --- Ethnology --- Irish --- African American-Irish American relations --- Irish American-African American relations --- Social conditions. --- History. --- Relations with Irish Americans. --- Race identity --- Relations with African Americans