🍀 Archiving Irish Stereotypes in Newspaper Strips The comics page of an American newspaper from the late nineteenth or early twentieth century was rarely a neutral space. It reflected the attitudes, anxieties, and biases of the society that produced it,…
🍀 Irish Folklore in Early Horror Films Strange Origins Irish folklore in early horror films is a subject that deserves far more attention than it typically receives. The connection is not incidental. Long before studio horror developed its familiar conventions,…
☘️ Origins of Irish Halloween superstitions in America Irish Halloween superstitions arrived in the United States largely through nineteenth-century immigration. Families who left rural counties during and after the Great Famine carried with them a seasonal calendar shaped by older…
🍀 Collecting St. Patrick’s Day Postcards and Paper Ephemera Guide Collecting St. Patrick’s Day Postcards occupies a modest but steady place within the broader field of holiday ephemera. These cards, most commonly produced between 1905 and the early 1920s, reflect…
🍀 Irish Stereotypes in Early Film: Charm, Trouble, and Myth The Irish appeared on screen almost as soon as cameras started rolling. From the 1890s through the 1920s, filmmakers in America and Britain created a visual vocabulary for Irishness that…