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This chapter brings the discussion back to the evolution of Irish American identity in the present day, where “fake news,” “alternative facts,” and some 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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John V. Kelleher, “Irish American Literature and Why There Isn’t Any,” in Fanning, Selected Writings of John V. Kelleher, 127.
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John V. Kelleher, “Irishness and America,” in Fanning, 154.
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John V. Kelleher, “Edwin O’Connor and the Irish American Process,” in Fanning, 141.
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John V. Kelleher, “Irish American Literature, and Why There Isn’t Any,” in Fanning, 127.
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Quoted in Charles Duffy, A Family of His Own: A Life of Edwin O’Connor, 185.
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Charles Duffy, A Family of His Own: A Life of Edwin O’Connor, 157–162.
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Edwin O’Connor, The Last Hurrah, 126.
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Charles Duffy, A Family of His Own, 332.
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Charles Duffy, A Family of His Own, 132.
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James Silas Rogers and Matthew J. O’Brien, Editors, After the Flood, 3.
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Mary Doyle Curran, The Parish and The Hill, 220.
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O’Leary Anish, B. (2021). Conclusion: Communities in Jeopardy. In: Irish American Fiction from World War II to JFK. New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83194-3_9
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