Titlebook: Irish American Fiction from World War II to JFK; Anxiety, Assimilatio Beth O’Leary Anish Book 2021 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Au

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,John Steinbeck’s Irish Grandfather: Samuel Hamilton, ,, and Post-world War II Irish American Fictioation rarely associated with them: California. Steinbeck, not considered an author of ethnic fiction but rather more broadly American, writes in . a character based on his own immigrant grandfather. Samuel Hamilton of County Derry moved beyond the urban ethnic enclaves of Boston, New York City, and

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, for a Way of Life: The Private Side of Edwin O’Connor’s Famous Novel,hed middle class, as members of the clergy, politicians, newspapermen, and businessmen. O’Connor writes slightly later than the other novelists in this study, and so the process of becoming American has largely been completed. The memory of poverty was not far in the past, however. Characters such a

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Conclusion: Communities in Jeopardy,me loudly conservative voices in media and government can be viewed through the lens the authors in this study provide us. It also brings together the themes raised in all of the novels described above, most notably their concerns for the future of Irish America, which of course is our present.

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Beth O’Leary AnishAddresses the concerns of Irish America in this era by studying its fiction.Presents the reader with lesser known works.Looks at the beginning of the 20th century, when authors‘ immigrant grandparents

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Introduction: Memory, History, and the Shaping of the Irish American Present,al focus on the formative years for the novelists included. Immigration trends, World War I, the Great Depression, anti-communism, and the changing Catholic Church, all factor into their worldview. Theories of memory and postcolonialism are used to ground an understanding of the fictional works to be covered in later chapters.

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