“I'm as Good an Irishman as You”: The Ancient Order of Hibernians and the Construction of Irish Ethnicity in Canada and the United States, 1908–1918

Abstract In the early twentieth century, the Ancient Order of Hibernians (AOH) was the foremost Irish ethnic association in North America. At its peak in 1908, there were over 200,000 members spread across thousands of divisions from Cape Breton Island to Hawaii. Across this vast spatial network, th...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Journal of American Ethnic History
Main Author: Mannion, Patrick
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: University of Illinois Press 2022
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/19364695.41.2.02
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