History's Erratics David A. Silbersweig to build geographically dispersed communities

to build geographically dispersed communities of ideas

and contradictions between politics and administration

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History's Erratics David A. Silbersweig to build geographically dispersed communitiesAs Ice Age glaciers left behind erratics, so the external forces of history tumbled the Irish into America. Existing both out of time and out of space, a diverse range of these Roman Catholic immigrants saw their new country in a much different way than did the Protestants who settled and claimed it. These erratics chose backward looking tradition and independence over assimilation and embraced a quintessentially Irish form of subversiveness that