Irish Folkways: The Parade

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Irish Folkways The Parade
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American Attitudes toward Irish Immigration

• Special Fears Regarding Famine Refugees
• Poor and degraded
• Ignorant and illiterate
• Catholic and superstitious
• An inferior race

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Mrs. Mulrooney 1839
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An Irish Jig
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An Irish Interior
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A Proud Mother
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Heads Monkey, Orangutan, Negro, Kalmuck
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Irish Fraternal Associations

• Aid to Emigrants and Ethnic Pride

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Early Parades

• Religious observance
• of St. Patricks Feast Day
• Followed by a Banquet
• Colonial roots
• Boston, 1737
• NYC 1762
• Famine-era expansion
• NYC 1848

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A Pattern in Connemarra
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An Outdoor Mass
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Other Parades

• Labor Day parade

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St. Patricks Day, 1867
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St. Patricks Day, ca 1880
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NYCs Parade
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Irish Pride, 2005
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Irish Palm Pilot
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