Title 'Twas only an Irishman's dream : the image of Ireland and the Irish in American popular song lyrics, 1800-1920 / William H. A. Williams.

Publication Info.	Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [1996]
	©1996

Item Status

Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Talbott: Circulating Collection	ML3554 .W55 1996	Available	---

Description	xii, 311 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series	Music in American life
	Music in American life.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Dear harp of my country : the Irish origins -- Romantic Irish popular songs in antebellum America -- From Teague to Paddy : the evolution of the stage Irishman -- Ethnicity and parlor songs : Paddy compared -- "To the land we left and to the land we live in" -- The Irish and Vaudeville -- The Irish American in post-Civil War song -- The theater and songs of Edward Harrigan -- Paddy on the alley -- Irish America in search of an image -- All that I want is in Ireland.
Subject	Irish Americans -- Songs and music -- History and criticism.
	Irish Americans -- Songs and music.
	Irish Americans.
	Irish -- Songs and music -- History and criticism.
	Irish.
	Popular music -- United States -- History and criticism.
	Popular music.
	United States.
	Ireland -- Songs and music -- Texts.
	Ireland.
Genre/Form	Songs and music.
	Texts.
	Songs.
	Songs.
	Music.
	Music.
Added Title	Image of Ireland and the Irish in American popular song lyrics, 1800-1920
	Only an Irishman's dream
ISBN	0252022467 cloth
	0252065514 paperback