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Sets Steps and Ceilis: Irish Dancing
This site offers a history of set, step and Ceilis dance. Check it out!
University of Maryland
Umbc Center for History Education: Reshaping American Society
Using this history lab, students will examine the impact immigration had on urbanization and the reform movements of the time, as well as the addressing the backlash to immigration by understanding nativism.
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of American History: On the Water: Maritime Nation: Shipwrecks
Illustrated accounts of the destruction and loss of two ships sailing to America across the Atlantic illuminate the dangers of nineteenth-century travel and the modes of rescue available at the time. With a range of archival material,...
Ohio State University
Osu History Teaching Institute: Irish Immigration to the United States
Brief overview of how various immigrant groups have been accepted with a focus on the Irish. Discusses the melting pot concept of immigration and how it compares to the 'salad bowl' concept of immigration.
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Your Irish: History of Ancient Ireland
A brief history of Ireland from 8000 BC to 600 BC. Includes the Mesolithic period, the Neolithic period, and the Iron Age period in Ireland.
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Oral History Digital Collection
First-person narratives of northeastern Ohioans who have participated in, or closely observed events which have significantly affected both the state and nation.
Irelands Eye
The Curse of Cromwell
A history of religious struggles during the mid-1600's in Ireland between the Catholics of Ireland and Protestants from England, led by Oliver Cromwell.
Irelands Eye
The Fenian Movement
The brief history of the Fenian Movement in Ireland during the mid-1800's, as they tried to fight for Irish independence and home rule.
Irelands Eye
Catholic Emancipation (Ireland)
The story of Daniel O'Connell's influence on the history of the Irish Parliament, as Catholics gained significant influence and power during the early 1800's.
Irelands Eye
Ulster Will Fight
A brief history of the religious and political struggles between what is now Ireland and Northern Ireland during the early 1900's.
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of American History: Within These Walls
Creatively tells the story of a house that has been a home to five American families over the period of time from the colonial era to the Second World War. You can find information about the house itself as well as the culture of the...
Immigration and Ethnic History Society
Iehs: Judy Ridner, How to Teach the History of the Scots Irish in Pennsylvania
This is an article about the stereotypes of the Scots Irish in early Pennsylvania. The author discusses her book "The Scots Irish of Early Pennsylvania" which challenges these stereotypes.
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Multicultural America: Irish Americans
Provides an overview of the traditional culture and lifestyle of Irish Americans. (Note: Content is not the most current.)
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Scottish and Scotch Irish Americans
Provides an overview of the traditional culture and lifestyle of Scottish and Scotch-Irish Americans. (Note: Content is not the most current.)
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Us History: 1800 1840: Irish and German Immigration
Famine and political revolution in Europe led millions of Irish and German citizens to immigrate to America in the mid-nineteenth century.
A&E Television
History.com: How 38 Ira Members Pulled Off the Uk's Biggest Prison Escape
During the height of Northern Ireland's "Troubles" in the 1970s and '80s, the British government incarcerated hundreds of Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) paramilitaries inside the notorious Maze Prison. Touted as Europe's most...
BBC
Bbc: History: Northern Ireland: The Troubles, 1963 85
This article gives an objective view of the problems that brought about "The Troubles" that afflicted Northern Ireland between 1963 and 1985, the actions taken on all sides, and the Anglo-Irish Agreement which sought to end the conflicts.
Tennessee History For Kids
Tennessee History for Kids: Kings Mountain
It was the most famous road trip and the most important victory in Tennessee history. During the American Revolution, a British commander named Patrick Ferguson led an army through South Carolina. Along the way, he sent a threatening...
BBC
Bbc: History: Edmund Burke (1729 1797)
A one-page summary of the life and philosophy of influential eighteenth-century Anglo-Irish Parliamentarian Edmund Burke, whose theories of government led him to sympathize with the American colonists against the British crown, to...
Victorian Web
Victorian Web: Oscar Wilde an Overview
Victorian Web provides a neatly organized site with links to information about Oscar Wilde including biography, works, political history, social history, religion, science, genre and mode, visual arts, themes, characters, imagery,...
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Kinsella Homepage: Irish Immigrants in America During the 19th Century
This site gives insight into what life was like for Irish immigrants who came to America during the 19th century.
Immigration and Ethnic History Society
Iehs: Lucy Salyer Uncovers the History of Expatriation & the Fenian Brotherhood
Scholar Lucy Salyer writes about Irish Americans who joined the Fenian Brotherhood around the time of the U.S. Civil War and the shifting ideas of allegiance, citizenship, and expatriation implicated in their story. Read the following...
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Critical Survey: Irish Poetic Modernisms a Reappraisal
This scholarly article attempts to place the Irish Literary Revival within the context of "European and American modernism - their shared preoccupation with mysticism, symbolism, millenarianism, and anti-modernization."
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Cassidy Clan: Irish Poetry & the Cassidy Contribution
Discussion and explanation of the importance of poetry in Ireland and the importance of Irish literature. Discusses the Irish masterpiece "Banshenchas" and provides a link to the actual text.
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