![]() ![]() Gleeson's The Irish in the South: 1815-1877. The historical information presented in this blog was derived primarily from David T. ![]() This website will discuss the recurring themes of this course, which have been used to generally define the Irish American experience: Immigration, Labor, Social Life, Ethnic Identity, Religion, and Politics. ![]() But what was not covered as deeply was the experience of these people in Old South, during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. We have uncovered some of the historical reasons for this throughout the course of this semester. The chances of knowing someone whose family has been in the south for multiple generations and was Catholic was much more rare than meeting someone here at UD, or even in the general Midwest. Growing up in North Carolina, the majority of Irish or Ulster-Scot heritage was tagged by Protestant religions, mostly Presbyterianism. Much has been learned through this course about the Irish American experience in the United States, but what has intrigued me is their history and experience in the southern states: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia. ![]()
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