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Ireland and Irish America: Culture, Class, and Transatlantic Migration.Field Day Publications. 2008. ISBN 978-0-946755-39-4.; Kerby A. Miller, ed. (2003). Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan: Letters and Memoirs from Colonial and Revolutionary America, 1675-1815.
Irish Studies is an interdisciplinary field of research devoted to the study of Ireland, History of Ireland. Geography of Ireland, Culture of Ireland, Literature of Ireland, Art of Ireland, Languages of Ireland, Politics of the Republic of Ireland, Politics of Northern Ireland and Irish people in Ireland and elsewhere.
Of his latest contribution to the history of Irish Migration, Ireland, Sweden and the Great European Migration, 1815–1914 (2013), fellow Irish Diaspora historian Donald MacRaild wrote: "This monumental study clearly will have a huge impact in the field. Typically of Akenson, an original thinker of the first order, it debunks many myths, half ...
He is credited with leading efforts to revive and preserve Irish culture and language in the United States and he was named to the list of the 100 greatest Irish-Americans of the century by Irish America magazine. [1] [2] The Irish writer and former editor of The Irish Press Tim Pat Coogan praised McKiernan as "the father of Irish studies." [3]
The American Irish Historical Society (AIHS) is a historical society devoted to Irish American history that was founded in Boston in the late 19th century. Non-partisan and non-sectarian since its inception in 1897, [1] it maintains the most complete private collection of Irish and Irish-American literature and history in the United States, [2] and it publishes a journal entitled The Recorder. [3]
Penal Era and Golden Age: Essays in Irish History, 1690-1800 (Belfast, 1979) (as co-editor) Irish Studies: A General Introduction (Dublin, 1988). The Fall and Rise of the Irish Nation: the Catholic Question, 1690-1830 (Gill and Macmillan, 1992) (editor) A Military History of Ireland (Cambridge, 1996) Theobald Wolfe Tone (Dundalk, 1998), pp. 89
Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America is a book by American politician and author James "Jim" Webb.It describes the history of the Scots-Irish ethnic group, summarising their Scottish roots and time in Ulster and the Plantation of Ulster before entering a more elaborate narrative of their time in the United States of America.
The Irish American Cultural Institute (IACI) is an American cultural group founded in Saint Paul, Minnesota, by Dr. Eoin McKiernan in 1962. The group's purpose is to promote an intelligent appreciation of Ireland and the role and contributions of the Irish in America culture. It also sponsors research and awards prizes in the field of Irish ...