Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface : connections and separations -- Introduction : Irish types, American patterns -- 1. What Americans know and how they know it : song -- 2. What Americans know and how they know it : story -- 3. "Picture postcard Ireland" : Thomas Moran's The world I made for her -- 4. Naming the past : Lisa Carey's The mermaids singing -- 5. The pain of not knowing : Katharine Weber's The music lesson -- 6. Bringing paddies over : Alice McDermott's Charming Billy -- 7. The rage of the dying animal : Mary Gordon's The other side -- Conclusion : the journey.

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