Inventing Irish America: Generation, Class, and Ethnic Identity in a New England City, 1880-1928 (Irish in America)
Timothy J. Meagher investigates how Irish immigrants and their descendants in Worcester, Massachusetts, constructed ethnic identity, navigated class divisions, and participated in American society from 1880 to 1928.
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This book examines the evolution of Irish ethnic identity in a New England industrial city during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
It explores how successive generations of Irish immigrants negotiated class, religion, and politics to shape a distinct American Irish community.
The study draws on archival sources to trace institutional growth, labor participation, and cultural adaptation within Worcester's Irish population.
Meagher analyzes the interplay between emerging middle-class leadership and working-class traditions in defining ethnic boundaries.
The work situates local developments within broader patterns of American immigration and urban social change.
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