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It is a pleasure to welcome this book into the front ranks of Irish diaspora studies. * Patrick O'Farrell, Irish Studies Review, Vol. 8, No.2 * If only sociology were always like this! * Patrick O'Farrell, Irish Studies Review, Vol. 8, No.2 * it is a highly professional, very well-informed, and toughly intelligent sociological exercise, based on wide and exhaustive interviews. These are set on a firm historiographical and geographic base, subjected to constant discussion between the author and his two research assistants, and analysed with patient, open-minded, care and balance. * Patrick O'Farrell, Irish Studies Review, Vol. 8, No.2 * What a marvelous Liberation for scholarship! * Patrick O'Farrell, Irish Studies Review, Vol. 8, No.2 * What a tonic this excellent book is for serious and non-partisan students of Irish America, and for commentators and analysts of the Irish diaspora generally. At last a superbly researched and rigorously though through challenge to - I would say demolition of - the mythological orthodoxy generated by the dominance, in image-making, of the Irish ghettos of New York, Boston, Philadelphia. * Patrick O'Farrell, Irish Studies Review, Vol. 8, No.2 * Byron believes that one effect of multiculturalism has been to force people to choose an ethnie - a politically and socially divisive practice. * Ian Jackman, London Review of Books, September 7th 2000 * Irish America asks whether people who identify themselves as Irish-Americans have distinctive ways of behaving or thinking, five, six or seven generations down from the period of heaviest immigration around the time of the Famine. * Ian Jackman, London Review of Books, September 7th 2000 * This is a refreshingly intriguing book with no trace of misty-eyed self-indulgence about the sea-divided Gael. * Irish Review 27 *

This is a refreshingly intriguing book with no trace of misty-eyed self-indulgence about the sea-divided Gael. Irish Review 27 Irish America asks whether people who identify themselves as Irish-Americans have distinctive ways of behaving or thinking, five, six or seven generations down from the period of heaviest immigration around the time of the Famine. Ian Jackman, London Review of Books, September 7th 2000 Byron believes that one effect of multiculturalism has been to force people to choose an ethnie - a politically and socially divisive practice. Ian Jackman, London Review of Books, September 7th 2000 What a tonic this excellent book is for serious and non-partisan students of Irish America, and for commentators and analysts of the Irish diaspora generally. At last a superbly researched and rigorously though through challenge to - I would say demolition of - the mythological orthodoxy generated by the dominance, in image-making, of the Irish ghettos of New York, Boston, Philadelphia. Patrick O'Farrell, Irish Studies Review, Vol. 8, No.2 What a marvelous Liberation for scholarship! Patrick O'Farrell, Irish Studies Review, Vol. 8, No.2 it is a highly professional, very well-informed, and toughly intelligent sociological exercise, based on wide and exhaustive interviews. These are set on a firm historiographical and geographic base, subjected to constant discussion between the author and his two research assistants, and analysed with patient, open-minded, care and balance. Patrick O'Farrell, Irish Studies Review, Vol. 8, No.2 If only sociology were always like this! Patrick O'Farrell, Irish Studies Review, Vol. 8, No.2 It is a pleasure to welcome this book into the front ranks of Irish diaspora studies. Patrick O'Farrell, Irish Studies Review, Vol. 8, No.2

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Adjunct Professor of Anthropology, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Long Island, New York Research Professor of Anthropology, Union College, Schenectady, New York

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