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Program

Research Programs: Summer Stipends

Period of Performance

6/1/1978 - 8/31/1978

Funding Totals

$2,500.00 (approved)
$2,500.00 (awarded)

Will the World Break Your Heart? A Historical Analysis of the Dimensions and Consequences of Irish-American Assimilation

FAIN: FT-13865-78

John D. Ibson
California State University, Fullerton Foundation (Fullerton, CA 92831-3547)

To prepare for publication manuscripts of grantee's doctoral dissertation, a study of Irish-Americans from the 1840s to the present. The paper draws on a variety of published sources--autobiographies, biographies, histories, scholarly and popular works in the natural and social sciences, novels, plays and films--to show that the Irish have remained cultural strangers in the U.S., and that while their ethnicity has been repressed, it has not been obliterated.