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Radical History Review (1995) 1995 (61): 35–61.
Published: 01 January 1995
...Elizabeth McKillen Copyright © 1995 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 1995 American Labor, the Irish
Revolution, and the Campaign for a
Boycott of British Goods: 1916-1924
Elizabeth McKillen
In an essay on the state...
Journal Article
Radical History Review (2019) 2019 (134): 29–57.
Published: 01 May 2019
... to “boycott” local grocers who had declined to extent credit to the striking workers. 53 In April, it was noted that there had been attempts by the Irish in New York to import “old world methods” at odds with “our free and American system of labor.” 54 By the summer, large-scale boycotts were...
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Radical History Review (2022) 2022 (143): 125–140.
Published: 01 May 2022
... quota system. Claiming that the new law discriminated against Europeans, Irish advocates framed their campaign as an effort to diversify the post-1965 immigrant pool, which was predominantly Asian and Latin American. By examining the rhetoric deployed in congressional hearings and media appearances...
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Radical History Review (2022) 2022 (143): 32–49.
Published: 01 May 2022
... were overwhelmingly sympathetic to the cause of the insurgents in Spanish America, their support took different forms and meanings. Whereas contemporaries in Ireland saw the benefits of Spanish American independence for the prosperity and security of the British Empire, Irish radical exiles in New York...
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Radical History Review (2002) 2002 (83): 203–210.
Published: 01 May 2002
... ILWU with that of
its AFL rival for the loyalties of longshoremen, the ILA, which ruled the docks of
New York as enclaves of Italian American and Irish American job monopolies and
organized blacks and whites into separate “biracial” locals in many southern...
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Radical History Review (1996) 1996 (66): 40–91.
Published: 01 October 1996
... or empathy with those despoiled or left behind by the
pursuit of urban plea~ureOther musical teams specialized in
blackface or Irish characterizations, and some singers gave a medley
of ethnic types including Irish, African-American, ”Dutch” or
German, and, occasionally, Jewish. Comedy monologuists...
Journal Article
Radical History Review (1996) 1996 (66): 41–91.
Published: 01 October 1996
... or empathy with those despoiled or left behind by the
pursuit of urban plea~ureOther musical teams specialized in
blackface or Irish characterizations, and some singers gave a medley
of ethnic types including Irish, African-American, ”Dutch” or
German, and, occasionally, Jewish. Comedy monologuists...
Journal Article
Radical History Review (2022) 2022 (143): 1–14.
Published: 01 May 2022
...” to the complexities of Irish history often privileged identification with European and Anglo-American historical models over links to, and solidarity with, the postcolonial Global South. 11 Two decades on, the urgent need to globalize Irish history now requires confronting a set of political orthodoxies for which...
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Radical History Review (1997) 1997 (68): 154–164.
Published: 01 May 1997
... of the Irish, the why hardly needs explaining.
Although the privileges of white skin,in America were pretty well
established by the time most Irish immigrated in the mid-nineteenth
century, tight competition between Irish and African Americans
over jobs urged the Irish to take advantage...
Journal Article
Radical History Review (2009) 2009 (104): 143–152.
Published: 01 May 2009
... defended many Irish and Irish Americans in U.S. courts. O’Dwyer led
the welcome to Gerry Adams during Adams’s first visit to the United States in 1994.
Noble | Curated Spaces 151
Ro s a l e e n Fe r r i s 1994
Ferris helped...
Journal Article
Radical History Review (1993) 1993 (56): 114–118.
Published: 01 May 1993
... and citizenship.
116/RADICALHISTORY REVIEW
All of the readings are roughly autobiographical or fictional, with the
exception of Hasia Diner's Erin's Daughters in America. (I couldn't find an
Irish-American autobiography or novel that fit and was in print.) There are
no papers, only a midterm...
Journal Article
Radical History Review (2022) 2022 (143): 89–108.
Published: 01 May 2022
.... Famine Irish and the American Racial State . New York : Routledge , 2017 . O’Sullivan Tanya . Geographies of City Science: Urban Life and Origin Debates in Late Victorian Dublin . Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press , 2019 . Poovey Mary . A History of the Modern Fact...
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Radical History Review (1981) 1981 (25): 3–8.
Published: 01 January 1981
...
transmitted through oral traditions -songs, poems, folklore, customs,
stories-was a crucial resource not only for Irish peasants fighting
British rule but also for Irish-Americans, McMahon among them,
struggling against American industrial capitalism. Songs and poems,
historian Michael Gordon...
Journal Article
Radical History Review (1979) 1979 (21): 86–97.
Published: 01 October 1979
... parishioners.
Both Mayor Curley's reign and Father Joyce's attitudes capture
the inter-relationship between class and ethnic identity. Both were
Irish/Americans but Joyce, now a spokesman for ruling class in-
Illustration from pro-development comic book published by the Boston
Chamber...
Journal Article
Radical History Review (2009) 2009 (104): 17–40.
Published: 01 May 2009
..., invidious comparisons between Irish aristocracy and privilege and American
democracy and meritocracy. Perhaps more surprising, many Presbyterian emigrants
empathized with the plight of their Catholic compatriots and continued to express
sympathy for the Nationalist goals and ecumenical ideals...
Journal Article
Radical History Review (1978) 1978 (17): 39–74.
Published: 01 May 1978
... scattered industrial
recognition in the Old Country, and set about early to
acquire similar status in Fall River, Massachusetts, the
"Little Lancashire" bordering upon Rhode Island. Even
English and Irish-American workers detached by genera-
tion or particular experience...
Journal Article
Radical History Review (2022) 2022 (143): 109–124.
Published: 01 May 2022
...-Pacific project at American historical conferences is pertinent. Despite disavowing their role as “handmaidens” to the nation-state, transnational historians remain, as Rees notes, largely guided by questions defined in relation to national historiographical paradigms. 15 Insofar as Irish...
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Radical History Review (1997) 1997 (67): 214–217.
Published: 01 January 1997
... to conscription was more widespread than admit-
ted by Dubofsky and Preston. In particular, research suggests that
limiting ethnic resistance to Scandinavians and Finns excludes con-
sideration of extensive Irish-American resistance to the draft, espe-
cially evident among Butte Wobblies. Furthermore...
Journal Article
Radical History Review (2022) 2022 (143): 177–193.
Published: 01 May 2022
..., and religious, especially Catholic, doctrine.” 13 In the years after Rerum Novarum ’s publication, a network of Irish Catholic social reformers used the living wage as part of their critique of the capitalist system; this network included the Irish American priest John Augustine Ryan. Ryan developed...
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Radical History Review (1975) 1975 (9-10): 56–73.
Published: 01 October 1975
.... At
the local level a new stage of confidence within an immi•
grant community might lead to organizational assertiveness
at both the political and civil levels. Thus, in the same
year that Irish-American shoeworkers helped a labor party
to power in Rochester, N.H., their generous contributions...
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