Irish-Catholic history, and the construction of an Irish-Catholic identity in the United States - 1815-1871

这个项目将调查17世纪世纪爱尔兰历史的遗产对整个19世纪世纪美国爱尔兰天主教徒身份形成的重要性;对爱尔兰历史的理解是对英国贪婪压迫的无与伦比的叙述，这如何影响了爱尔兰天主教徒对美国其他欧洲和全球移民的看法，它如何塑造他们自己的种族天主教，反对其他天主教社区，以及其他欧洲人民的事业如何被解释并与爱尔兰天主教徒的事业进行负面比较。本文将评估美国爱尔兰天主教徒对维也纳协议、希腊独立战争、1830年波兰起义、西班牙-美国共和国的出现、1830年至1848年法国征服阿尔及利亚、奴隶制、1848年英帝国主义在印度、克里米亚战争和德意统一的接受情况，以及爱尔兰天主教社区如何利用这些案件来激发和巩固美国特定的爱尔兰天主教身份。本文将评估爱尔兰历史是如何与这些案例相比较，以将爱尔兰的事业置于其他一切之上，使爱尔兰天主教徒相信他们是一个更高尚的社区，一个更值得同情，尊重和援助。论文将利用爱尔兰天主教报纸，小册子，布道和政治演讲。

This project will investigate the importance of the legacy of 17th Century Irish history for the formation of Irish-Catholicidentity in the United States across the 19th century; how an understanding of Irish history as an incomparable narrativeof oppression at the hands of British rapacity informed Irish-Catholic perceptions of other European and global diasporacommunities in the United States, how it shaped their own ethnic Catholicism against alternative Catholic communities,and how the causes of other European peoples were interpreted and compared negatively with the cause of the Irish-Catholics. This thesis will assess American Irish-Catholic reception of the Vienna Settlement, the Greek War ofIndependence, the Polish Uprising of 1830, the emergence of Spanish-American republics, the French conquest ofAlgeria between 1830 and 1848, slavery, British imperialism in India, 1848, the Crimean War and German and ItalianUnification, and how these cases were utilised by the Irish-Catholic community to galvanise and solidify a specific Irish-Catholic identity in the United States. The thesis will assess how Irish history was compared with these cases to placethe Irish cause above all others, to make Irish-Catholics believe they were a more noble community and one moredeserving of sympathy, respect and aid. The thesis will utilise Irish-Catholic newspapers, pamphlets, sermons andpolitical speeches.