Strange kin: Ireland and the American South Kieran Quinlan (Louisiana State University Press, $49.95) ISBN 0807129836 The burden of history shared by pure Irish immigrants within the American South and its mixture of so-called ‘Celts’, ‘Anglo-Saxons’ and ‘Scotch Irish’ is not just stereotypically born of those ethnic groups’ ‘stupidity’ but by an obvious lack of ... Read more
