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CSPAN3 June 23, 2012

this idea of invented traditions and thats whats going on here. this is -- the st. patricks day parade is a relatively new phenomenon in new york. you had parades by basically catholic churches on st. patricks day going back to the late 18th century and tended to be a number of small parades by different churches in different parts of town. the first sort of all new york single st. patricks day parade is 1848, just after you start to see the influx of the irish so this is still a fairl...
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CSPAN3 June 23, 2012

european governments attempted to appease the working classes, reduce social tension. one of the tools they used was mass politics, we talked about. thats also something thats going on in the united states. in the united states, that process takes on a much different context. and the main reason for that is that in the u.s., you have universal white male suffrage by about 18 20. unlike in europe where it is france and the 1870s and other countries later on, in the u.s. you have basical...
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CSPAN3 May 20, 2012

doing it inside of a german group, a german faction and also maintaining close ties with home and the correspondence with his parents and so forth we looked at and so forth, so this is a phenomena that is true of the germans as well as the irish in the 19th century and true of other groups as well in this period. any questions in the 19th century before we bump forward a little bit into the 20th century? this is when american politics starts to change and takes on a little bit differen...
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CSPAN3 May 20, 2012

themselves as being good, loyal irish men and women and being good americans, the two identities are merging, coming together. >> would the americans have seen them pushing for a republic as proof that like not the civil rising mission but that they had improved the irish? >> there is some who -- yeah, the idea that them advocating for irish republic would be evidence of the irish moving up the ladder a little bit socially and civically and i think there is some of that and certainly p...
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