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This book focuses on the intersection between the assimilation of the Irish into American life and the emergence of an American popular culture, which took place at the same historical moment in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It investigates the primary elements of early American popular culture--pulp fiction, comic strips, professional sports, music recordings, stage shows, radio plays, early film, and board games--and uncovers the entanglements these things had with the development of Irish-American identity. While exploring the specificity of the Irish example, the book helps...

This book examines the development of literary constructions of Irish-American identity from the mid-nineteenth century arrival of the Famine generation through the Great Depression. It goes beyond an analysis of negative Irish stereotypes and shows how Irish characters became the site of intense cultural debate regarding American identity, with some writers imagining Irishness to be the antithesis of Americanness, but others suggesting Irishness to be a path to Americanization.

This study emphasizes the importance of considering how a sense of Irishness was imagined by both...