{"product_id":"blackness-and-transatlantic-irish-identity-1","title":"Blackness and Transatlantic Irish Identity","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBlackness and Transatlantic Irish Identity\u003c\/em\u003e analyzes the long history of imagined and real relationships between the Irish and African-Americans since the mid-nineteenth century in popular culture and literature. Irish writers and political activists have often claimed - and thereby created - a \"black\" identity to explain their experience with colonialism in Ireland and revere African-Americans as a source of spiritual and sexual vitality. Irish-Americans often resisted this identification so as to make a place for themselves in the U.S. However, their representation of an Irish-American identity pivots on a distinction between Irish-Americans and African-Americans. Lauren Onkey argues that one of the most consistent tropes in the assertion of Irish and Irish-American identity is constructed through or against African-Americans, and she maps that trope in the work of writers Roddy Doyle, James Farrell, Bernard MacLaverty, John Boyle O’Reilly, and Jimmy Breslin; playwright Ned Harrigan; political activists Bernadette Devlin and Tom Hayden; and musicians Van Morrison, U2, and Black 47.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54255223210328,"sku":"9780415653671","price":71.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780415653671_3c1907ef-1f45-4076-be28-dd6713c01e51.jpg?v=1770155129","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/blackness-and-transatlantic-irish-identity-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}