The Irish Catholic Diaspora in America(English, Paperback, McCaffrey Lawrence J.)

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The Irish Catholic Diaspora in America(English, Paperback, McCaffrey Lawrence J.) is written by McCaffrey Lawrence J. and published by The Catholic University of America Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0813208963 (ISBN 10) and 9780813208961 (ISBN 13).

The author's work traces the experience of Irish-American Catholics from their beginnings as detested, unskilled pioneers of the urban ghetto to their rise as an essentially affluent, powerful, middle-class suburban community. Blending his work and the contributions of other scholars, McCaffrey here adds fresh interpretations to the history of Irish American Catholics. He focuses on a number of topics, including the significance of Catholicism as the core of Irish ethnicity and the source of nativist attacks on their presence in the United States; the impact of Irish America on the course of Irish nationalism; the psychological struggle to reconcile Irish loyalties to an authoritarian religion and a liberal-democratic politics; and, more recently, the fading of the Catholic dimension of Irish identity.