Wherever they settled, immigrants from Ireland and their descendants shaped and reshaped their understanding of being Irish in response to circumstances in both the old and new worlds. In A Land of Dreams, Patrick Mannion analyzes and compares the evolution of Irish identity in three communities on the prow of northeastern North America: St John's, Newfoundland, Halifax, Nova Scotia, and Portland, Maine, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These three port cities, home to diverse Irish populations in different stages of development and in different national contexts, provide a fascinating setting for a study of intergenerational ethnicity. Mannion traces how Irishness could, at certain points, form the basis of a strong, cohesive identity among Catholics of Irish descent, while at other times it faded into the background. Although there was a consistent, often romantic gaze across the Atlantic to the old land, many of the organizations that helped mediate large-scale public engagement with the affairs of Ireland -- especially Irish nationalist associations -- spread from further west on the North American mainland. Irish ethnicity did not, therefore, develop in isolation, but rather as a result of a complex interplay of local, regional, national, and transnational networks. This volume shows that despite a growing generational distance, Ireland remained a land of dreams for many immigrants and their descendants. They were connected to a transnational Irish diaspora well into the twentieth century.
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- Includes bibliographical references (pages [293]-317) and index
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- Ethnicity, nationalism, and the Irish in Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, and Maine, 1880-1923
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Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- A LAND OF DREAMS 2
- Title 6
- Copyright 7
- Dedication 8
- Contents 10
- Tables and Figures 12
- Acknowledgments 14
- Abbreviations 18
- Introduction: The Irish Diaspora in Comparative Perspective 26
- 1 The Setting: St John’s, Newfoundland; Halifax, Nova Scotia; and Portland, Maine 40
- 2 Everyday Irishness: Associational Life, 1880–1910 64
- 3 Charitable Relief, the Land League, and Home Rule Nationalism, 1880–1891 100
- 4 The Changing Face of Ethnicity: Waning Nationalism and the Catholic Church 144
- 5 Reinvented Nationalism: The Third Home Rule Bill, the Ulster Crisis, and the First World War, 1911–1918 186
- 6 An Ethnic Resurgence: Engagement with Irish Nationalism, 1919–1923 220
- Conclusion: Understanding Irish Ethnicity in the Diaspora 256
- APPENDICES 264
- A Occupational Categories 266
- B Biographical Details of Members of the Portland Ancient Order of Hibernians, 1912 268
- C Traceable Members of the Portland Land League, 1881–1882 269
- D Provisional Dominion Council of the Self-Determination for Ireland League of Newfoundland, October 1920 271
- E Names and Occupations of the 1920 Portland Friends of Irish Freedom Executive 272
- Notes 274
- Bibliography 316
- Index 342
