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Book SynopsisWhat does it mean to be of Irish descent? What does Irish descent stand for in Ireland? In Northern Ireland? In the United States? This book addresses these questions by exploring the contemporary significance of ideas of ancestral roots, origins, and connections.
Trade ReviewOf Irish Descent is a fresh, insightful and lucidly written view of genealogy and genetics among the Irish in the homeland and in the United States. This is a book well worth pondering. . . . A must buy. Nash skillfully draws the attention of the reader to how collective belonging is reproduced both by the making of connections, attachments and affiliations and through practices of distinction and difference. . . . This book should be read by those interested in how primordial and plural claims to identity . . . interact and collide as they move across boundaries and are mobilized in different ways.
