Unfortunately, while Irish American achievements are erased from history, the negative stereotypes and tropes of the 19th century persist, dismissed as 'harmless humor.' Yet, if these same ...

Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British and Irish Studies at UB brings together faculty whose ... graduate students, high school teachers, and members of the general public for a week of study each ...

A whirl through the 19th-, 20th- and 21st-century histories of Ireland and Irish America, the musical is alternately funny ...

Though St. Patrick wasn’t Irish ... they faced in the 19th century. The widespread recognition of the holiday became a symbol of Irish resilience and integration into American society.

As the United States invaded Mexico in 1846, Los Patricios, a group of immigrants, took up arms for Mexico to defend their ...

That pretty much sums up the Irish American “curriculum” that I ... and inequality that stretch from 19th-century Ireland to 21st-century Africa, India, Appalachia, and Oakland; that explore ...

whose reputations were not fully eclipsed by Austen’s until late in the 19th century. American rare books dealer Rebecca Romney offers a lively, personal account of collecting works by ...

Since the 12th century, Ireland had been a colony of Great Britain. Like the American Colonists who rebelled against the British crown, a group of rebels called the United Irish launched an ...

In fact, American history shows that people can express ... (as did more than 20 other states at some point in the 19th century). The 1864 message of that state's Republican governor was published ...

"There is no such thing as one, definitive, version of Irish America." This phrase, or a variation of it, comes up time and time again when speaking to people who broadly fit under the umbrella of ...

Later, remarkably, he was made a Native American chief when in ... His book was an Irish nationalist classic during the 19th century. For her part, Porter (1776–1850) played a big role in ...

The Rio Grande in North American History,” and the biography prize for 1975’s “Lamy of Santa Fe,” about Jean-Baptiste Lamy, the 19th-century Archbishop of Santa Fe. Horgan died at age 91 ...