Here are a few books and articles mostly relating to the history of Irish tourism and Irish-American popular culture. For descriptions click on the primary titles.
Twas Only an Irishman’s Dream: The Image of Ireland and the Irish in American Popular Song Lyrics, 1800-1920 (University of Illinois, Music in American Life series, 1996).
Tourism, Landscape and the Irish Character: British Travel Writers in Pre-Famine Ireland (University of Wisconsin Press, hardback 2008, paperback 2011).
Creating Irish Tourism: The First Century, 1750-1850. (Anthem Studies in Travel, 2010).
Daniel O’Connell, the British Press and the Irish Famine: Killing Remarks. Leslie A. Williams, edited by William H. A. Williams (Ashgate/Rutledge Press, 2003.
H. L. Mencken Revisited (Twayne’s United States Author Series).
Work in Progress: Great Failure/Great Famine.
Selected Essays and Articles.
“The Traditional Midwife in Rural Irish Society,” The Varieties of Ireland, ed., Blanche Tuhil. St. Louis, Missouri: University of Missouri, 1976.
“The Broadside Ballad and Vernacular Culture,” Eigse Cheol Tíre-Irish Folk Music Studies [Dublin], 3, pp. 45-60, 1976-1981.
“Traditional Irish Music in the United States,” Ireland and America, 1776-1976, [Proceedings of the United States Bicentennial Conference of Cumman Merriman, Ennis, Ireland, August, 1976), ed., D. N. Doyle and O. D. Edwards. New York: Greenwood. 1980.
“Symbiotechnosis: The Challenge to Technological Literacy,” Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, 7:1-2, ed., Leonard J. Waks [Proceedings of the Second National Conference, Washington, DC, February 6-8, 1987]. University Park, Pennsylvania: STS Press, 1987, 325-329.
“The Non-Linear Nature of Social Time,” in Time, Rhythms, and Chaos in The New Dialogue With Nature: An Interpretative Symposium on Social and Humanistic Applications of the New Non-Linear Natural Sciences, ed. George P. Scott, Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University Press, Fall, 1990.
“From Lost Land to Emerald Isle: The Image of Ireland and the Irish in American Popular Sheet Music, 1800-1920;” Eire-Ireland, 26:1: 19-45 (Spring/Earrach, 1991. [This essay won the Irish-American Cultural Institute’s “Four Masters’ Prize” for the best historical essay appearing in the journal for 1991.]
“The Systemic Way of Knowing: Michael Polanyi and Gregory Bateson,” Polanyi to the Twenty-First Century: Proceedings of a Centennial Celebration, at Kent State University, April, 11-13, 1991, ed. Richard Gelwick, Biddeford, Main: The Polanyi Society,, 747-758, 1997.
“Immigration as a Pattern in American Culture” in The Immigration Reader: America in a Multidisciplinary Perspective, edited by David Jacobson. Maiden, Mass: Blackwell Publishers, 1998. This essay originally appeared in Proteus, October. 1994.
“‘Blow, Bugles, Blow’: Romantic Travellers and the Echoes of Killarney,” in Travel Essentials: Collected Essays on Travel Writing, edited by Santiago Henríquez. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria: Chandlon Inn Press, 1998.
“Into the West: Landscape and Imperial Imagination in Connemara, 1820-1852,” New Hibernia Review, 2:1 (Spring, Earrach, 1998, , 69-90.
“Irish Song in America,” for The Encyclopedia of the Irish in America, ed. Michael Glazier, University of Notre Dame Press, 1999, 474-478.
“The Smart Set,” and “The American Mercury,” for The Encyclopedia of Southern Literature, ed., Joseph M. Flora, University of North Carolina Press, 1999.
“Green Again: Re-Immigration and Gender Themes in Lace Curtain Satires.” New Hibernia Review, 6:2 (Summer/Samhradh, 2002), pp. 9-24.
“Irish Music in North America,” for The Encyclopedia of Ireland, ed. Brian Lalor, Gill & Macmillan, Dublin, 2003, pp. 549-50.
Entries on Earnest Ball, William J. Scanlan, Turlough Carolan, The Chieftains, The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, Michael Coleman, Edward Harrigan, Francis O’Neill, Chauncy Olcott and Terence Winch for the Encyclopedia of Irish-American Relations, edited by James P. Byrne, Philip Coleman, Jason King, published by ABC-Clio
“The Irish Tour, 1800-1850,” Travel Writing and Tourism in Britain and Ireland, ed. Benjamin Colbert, New York: Palgrave, Macmillan, 2012.