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 on St. Pat Patrick’ ick’s Day? • St. Patrick (385-461), patron saint of 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 o Say ay H Happ appy St St. P . Pat atric ick’s ’s D Day ay in in Iris ish Lá fhéile Pádraig sona dhuit! (lah leh PAH-drig SUN-uh gwitch)
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
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Urban ban A America ca & the I Impa mpact ct on I Irish- ish-Am American ican Id Identit ity
The he Role ole of of the 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 olic M Migra ration ion: : Emig igra ration on as as Ex Exil ile
Iris ish h Nat ationalis ism in Ame meric ica Shawmut District Fenian Brotherhood Ball invitation, 1876
Can the I Irish“be ish“become ome A Ame merican”? ”? 1888 1889
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 one 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
Iris ish- h-America can I Identity 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,
Mode dern-Day S St. Pa . Patrick’ k’s s Day Day i in Ame America: : Continue ued d Ide Identity wit ith h Ir Irela land d an and d The he Troub ouble les
Americ ican Po Polit itic ics s on on St. Pa Patric ick’s s Day
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