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CoNtENtS Acknowledgments vii Introduction 3 Bryan Albin Giemza I. QuestIons of hIstorIcAl DefInItIon - Chapter 1 - “A Lengthening Chain in the Shape of Memories” The Irish and Southern Culture 19 William R. Ferris - Chapter 2 After Strange Kin Further Reflections on the Relations between Ireland and the American South 36 Kieran Quinlan - Chapter 3 Irish Migration to the Colonial South A Plea for a Forgotten Topic 51 Patrick Griffin II. mAnIpulAtInG culture: Influence, reconsIDereD - Chapter 4 tara , the o’Haras, and the Irish Gone with the Wind 77 Geraldine Higgins vi Contents - Chapter 5 transatlantic Rites of Passage in the Friendship and Fiction of Eudora Welty and Elizabeth Bowen 92 Kathryn Stelmach Artuso - Chapter 6 Shared traditions Irish and Appalachian Ballads and Whiskey Songs 122 Emily Kader - Chapter 7 Blacks and Celts on the Riverine Frontiers The Roots of American Popular Music 140 Christopher J. Smith III. IDeoloGy AnD AmBIvAlence - Chapter 8 Another “Lost Cause” The Irish in the South Remember the Confederacy 163 David T. Gleeson - Chapter 9 on the Uses of Slavery The Irish in the South and Civil War Rhetoric 183 Bryan Albin Giemza - Coda Smoke ’n’ Guns A Preface to a Poem about Marginal Souths, and Then the Poem 204 Conor O’Callaghan Contributors 212 Index 216 ...