Irish Diaspora by Bill Mulligan
ABEI Journal
For many years, scholars and others who wrote about the Irish in the United States focused on the... more For many years, scholars and others who wrote about the Irish in the United States focused on the Catholic Irish, especially those who arrived around the time of the Irish Potato Famine and the several decades after that great calamity. Over roughly the last twenty years, the historical literature has come to grips with the more varied nature of the Irish experience in the United States and now better reflects the diversity of the varied religious backgrounds of the Irish in the United States. Further, while the literature on the Catholic Irish in the United States focused heavily on the Irish in northeastern cities there has been increasing attention to the Irish in other sections of the United States. The result of this new research and writing has been to expand and enrich our understanding of the Irish experience in the United States. My intention in this article is to sketch out this expanded and enriched understanding of the Irish experience in the United States which is also part of a larger, global process, the Irish Diaspora. The Diaspora approach to the study of the Irish in the United States offers a great many advantages. One of the limitations on the study of United States history has long "American exceptionalism." In its simplest form this approach begins by seeing United States history as a unique experience, separate from the larger flow of world events, and stresses the distinctiveness of the American (U.S.) experience. The Diaspora approach moves away from this and places the experience of the Irish in the United States in global context.
Paper prepared for the
City of Hancock, Michigan Sesquicentennial
May 21, 2013
Hancock, MI
Presented to MSU History Research Forum, Fall 2012
Lecture at Center for International Studies, University of Missouri-St. Louis
September 10, 2009
History Research Forum, Murray State University, 2009
Paper prepared for:
Mid America History Conference
Springfield, MO September 29-30, 2008
DeSantis Lecture, University of Notre Dame
March 20, 2007
Presented at joint meeting of American Council for Irish Studies, British Association for Irish S... more Presented at joint meeting of American Council for Irish Studies, British Association for Irish Studies, and European Federation of Associations and Centres for Irish Studies at University of Liverpool England July 12-16, 2004
Paper prepared for “Celtic Popular Culture” Conference
sponsored by University of Wisconsin-Milw... more Paper prepared for “Celtic Popular Culture” Conference
sponsored by University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, October 12, 2002
Essay on AOH for an encyclopedia withdrawn due to dispute with editor over length.
Essay prepared for an encyclopedia project but withdrawn due to dispute with editor over length.
Irish Miners in Upper Michigan by Bill Mulligan
New Hibernia Review, 2001
... 14. Rezek,p.252. 15, Portage Lake Mining Gazette, 11 February 1865. .; . 114 : ... 2?&amp... more ... 14. Rezek,p.252. 15, Portage Lake Mining Gazette, 11 February 1865. .; . 114 : ... 2?" ' Page 13. Irish Immigrants in Michigan's Copper Country When they became members o? the Roman Catholic organization, they did it, we are to suppose, voluntarily, with their eyes open. ...
Journal of the Mining Heritage Trust of Ireland , 2001
Presented at Keweenaw National Historical Park, Calumet, Michigan. June 26, 2008.
Civil War in Western Kentucky by Bill Mulligan
Lecture at Fort Donelson National Battlefield, February 2012. Updates and expands on earlier vers... more Lecture at Fort Donelson National Battlefield, February 2012. Updates and expands on earlier versions.
Lecture to Jackson Purchase Historical Society , February 2011. Published in the Journal of the J... more Lecture to Jackson Purchase Historical Society , February 2011. Published in the Journal of the Jackson Purchase Historical Society, Vol. 41 (2014): 106-124.
Talk given to Nashville, TN staff of the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Februar... more Talk given to Nashville, TN staff of the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, February, 2011.
Talk at Fort Donelson National Battlefield, Dover, TN
February 7, 2003
Updates previous version.
Talk given at Civil War Days in Paducah, KY September 11, 2003
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Irish Diaspora by Bill Mulligan
sponsored by University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, October 12, 2002
Irish Miners in Upper Michigan by Bill Mulligan
Civil War in Western Kentucky by Bill Mulligan
sponsored by University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, October 12, 2002
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Economic and Social History Society of Ireland
NUI- Maynooth
November 12-13, 2004
Substantially revised from paper presented at annual meeting of IESHS in Belfast, Northern Ireland Nov. 2006.