Irish in the South, 1815-1877

by David T. Gleeson

Book Overview

The only comprehensive study of Irish immigrants in the nineteenth-century South, this book makes a valuable contribution to the story of the Irish in America and to our understanding of southern culture.

The Irish who migrated to the Old South struggled to make a new home in a land where they were viewed as foreigners and were set apart by language, high rates of illiteracy, and their own self-identification as temporary exiles from famine...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807849685
• ISBN13: 9780807849682
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.2"