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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.
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.
McKiernan founded a study abroad program called The Irish Way, and brought Irish artists and writers for speaking tours in an effort to revive and preserve Irish culture in the United States. [ 18 ] To address what he saw as a shallow and "appalling" understanding of Irish culture among Americans, McKiernan directed 16 films and 53 half-hour ...
The term Scotch-Irish is used primarily in the United States, [11] with people in Great Britain or Ireland who are of a similar ancestry identifying as Ulster Scots people. Many left for North America, but over 100,000 Scottish Presbyterians still lived in Ulster in 1700. [12] Many English-born settlers of this period were also Presbyterians.
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]
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.
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
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 ...