Immigrant women in the making of Irish America: a walking history tour

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dc.contributor.advisorDenning, Robert
dc.contributor.authorPolatchek, Deborah
dc.contributor.committeeMemberChung, Yun
dc.date.accessioned2018-07-29T21:22:02Z
dc.date.available2018-07-29T21:22:02Z
dc.date.issued2018-04
dc.description.abstractAs a result of the Great Hunger, nearly 1.8 people emigrated from Ireland, and the resultant diaspora changed the face of the great cities where they arrived. The Irish were the first large immigrant group to emigrate to New York, and their arrival challenged the infrastructure and permanently changed the demography of the city. As such, the Irish are integral to immigration studies and New York City history, for they set the stage for the many ethnicities that followed in their footsteps. An important element in immigration studies is the process of assimilation that groups undergo as they transition from the old land to the new. This walking history tour introduces students to the idea of acculturation through the immigrant experience of the Irish Catholic women who emigrated in the middle of the nineteenth century. Through the use of illustrated newspapers, personal correspondence, city directories and bank records students learn of the nativist hostility that the Irish faced, and the strategies that they used to survive in their hostile new world. The tour ultimately exposes that while religious animosity threatened the Irish in America, it was this commitment to religion and to each other that enabled them to not only assimilate, but to thrive in New York. (Author abstract)en_US
dc.description.bibliographicCitationPolatchek, D. (2018). Immigrant women in the making of Irish America: a walking history tour. Retrieved from http://academicarchive.snhu.eduen_US
dc.description.degreeMaster Artsen_US
dc.description.programHistoryen_US
dc.description.schoolCollege of Online and Continuing Educationen_US
dc.digSpecsPDF/A-1ben_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10474/3204
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherSouthern New Hampshire Universityen_US
dc.relation.requiresAdobe Acrobat Readeren_US
dc.rightsAuthor retains all ownership rights. Further reproduction in violation of copyright is prohibiteden_US
dc.rightsHolderPolatchek, Deborah
dc.subject.lcshSouthern New Hampshire University -- Theses (History)en_US
dc.subject.otherhistoryen_US
dc.subject.otherimmigrationen_US
dc.subject.otherIrishen_US
dc.subject.otherwomenen_US
dc.titleImmigrant women in the making of Irish America: a walking history touren_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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