Irish American

The second result is what is found in Irish American bars all over the country: Guinness on tap, sports on television, and more fistfights than dancing on the dance floor.

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

Historians have noted that most of the strikes and rioting by early Irish American workers were spontaneous and, most importantly, outside the means of respectable, American, and “white” protest.

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

“There were thousands of Irish and Irish American performers” of blackface minstrelsy, writes historian Mick Moloney.

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

Through the nineteenth century and into the twentieth, Irish American community leaders waged a remarkably successful campaign of assimilation with the goal, as the Irish newspaper the Boston Pilot put it, to create “calm, rational, and respectable Irish Catholics of America.”

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

Songs written by Harrigan and his partner David Braham also a former blackface minstrel that depicted Irish American life were usually in the style of a jig but in a much slowed tempo and set to the regular cadence of a march.

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

This is not to suggest that the Irish American renegade disappeared entirely.

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

In any event, the transformation of the church from a largely white ethnic organization led by a predominantly Irish American hierarchy to a largely Latino organization is inexorable, as we discuss in more detail in Chapter 9.

American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

Normally Churchill would never reveal to a foreign civilian his secret war plans—particularly not an Irish American who might be a closet Anglophobe.

Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

At first, the British Foreign Office was leery about opening doors for this latest emissary, an Irish American lawyer from the opposition party whose sidekick was a reporter.

Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

According to my friend, the Irish American storyteller Michael Meade, the world can't end.

Luis J. Rodriguez: What 2012 Means Luis J. Rodriguez 2012