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Week 3: 3: St. . Patr trick’s ’s Day y in Ir Irish Ame merica

Who ho was S as St. Pa . Patrick? ick? What at do W do We Cele lebr brat ate on

• n St. Pat

Patrick’ ick’s Day?

• St. Patrick (385-461), patron saint
• f Ireland
• March 17 traditional death date

and feast day

• Patrick: nobleman born in

Scotland (real name Maewyn Succat), kidnapped by Irish pirates at 16, taken to Ireland as slave to herd sheep.

• After 17 years, St. Patrick escaped,

but returned to Ireland as missionary.

Ho How t to S

• Say

ay H Happ appy St

• St. P

. Pat atric ick’s ’s D Day ay in in Iris ish

(lah leh PAH-drig SUN-uh gwitch) Lá fhéile Pádraig sona dhuit!

• St. Pa

. Patri rick’s D ’s Day Tra radi ditions: Pa ns: Parades des & Celebra elebrations ns

The Wearing of the Green (Dye)

Sha hamrocks & & Lepr eprec echauns uns

Corned Beef (O (OR Bac acon) ) and C Cab abbag age

“The e Day We e Celeb elebrate” te”

Urban ban A America ca & the I Impa mpact ct

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Irish- ish-Am American ican Id Identit ity

The he Role

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Irish ish Ward B d Boss & ss & Urba ban Polit Political ical Machi achine

Se Sectar arian anism in in Polit litic ics

Iris Irish C Cat atholic

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Migra ration ion: : Emig igra ration

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as Ex Exil ile

Shawmut District Fenian Brotherhood Ball invitation, 1876

Iris ish h Nat ationalis ism in Ame meric ica

1889

1888 Can the I Irish“be ish“become

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Ame merican”? ”?

Hyp yphena enated ted Amer Americani canism sm

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism... a hyphenated American is not an American at all. This is just as true of the man who puts "native" before the hyphen as of the man who puts German or Irish or English or French before the hyphen. Americanism is a matter of the spirit and of the soul. Our allegiance must be purely to the United States. We must unsparingly condemn any man who holds any other allegiance. But if he is heartily and singly loyal to this Republic, then no matter where he was born, he is just as good an American as any

• ne else. The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing

all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish- Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality, than with the other citizens of the American Republic. The men who do not become Americans and nothing else are hyphenated Americans; and there ought to be no room for them in this country. Theodore Roosevelt, Speech to the Knights of Columbus, 1915

Our people have known how to suffer and how to die, but they have never learned how to abandon the faith of their fathers. Irishism and Americanism are one and the same. There is no man who swears allegiance to the United States so cheerfully as the

• Irishman. There is no man

who takes an oath against foreign kings and particularly the king of Great Britain and Ireland with as much pleasure as the Irishman. —Matthew Cummings,

Iris ish- h-America can I Identity

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Americ ican Po Polit itic ics s on

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Pa Patric ick’s s Day