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The Whiteness of Ireland Under and After the Union. Comment: Whiteness and Irish Experience in North America

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 December 2012

David A. Wilson
Affiliation:
University of Toronto

Abstract

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Type
Roundtable: G. K. Peatling, “The Whiteness of Ireland Under and After the Union”
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Copyright © North American Conference of British Studies 2005

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17 For some examples, see Boston Pilot (18 May, 17 August, 28 September, 26 October 1844) and American Celt (17 May 1851).

18 American Celt (31 August 1850).

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21 American Celt (3 May 1851).

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