Eccentric nation : Irish performance in nineteenth-century New York City /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Rohs, Stephen A. (Stephen Albert)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, [2009]
Subjects:	Irish Americans > New York (State) > New York > Ethnic identity > History > 19th century. Irish Americans > New York (State) > New York > Intellectual life > 19th century. Performance art > Social aspects > New York (State) > New York > History > 19th century. Nationalism > New York (State) > New York > History > 19th century. Community life > New York (State) > New York > History > 19th century. City and town life > New York (State) > New York > History > 19th century. Popular culture > New York (State) > New York > History > 19th century. New York (N.Y.) > Intellectual life > 19th century. New York (N.Y.) > Social conditions > 19th century. New York (N.Y.) > Ethnic relations > History > 19th century.

Table of Contents:

Resistance as community : "the bold soldier boy" and the know nothing crisis
Cultural minstrelsy's romantic Irish : The Colleen Bawn, accommodation, and the marketplace
Remembered traditions : the Galloglach, "Boyne water," and the 1871 Orange Riot
The Mulligan guard ball : Irish minstrels and urban spectacles.