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After all the green beer has been poured and the ubiquitous shamrocks fade away, what does it mean to be Irish American besides St. Patrick’s Day? Who’s Your Paddy traces the evolution of “Irish” as a race-based identity in the U.S. from the 19th century to the present day. Exploring how the Irish have been and continue to be socialized around race, Jennifer Nugent Duffy argues that Irish identity must be understood within the context of generational tensions between different waves of Irish immigrants as well as the Irish community’s interaction with other racial minorities. Using historic and ethnographic research, Duffy sifts through the many racial, class, and gendered dimensions of Irish-American identity by examining three distinct Irish cohorts in Greater New York: assimilated descendants of nineteenth-century immigrants; “white flighters” who immigrated to postwar America and fled places like the Bronx for white suburbs like Yonkers in the 1960s and 1970s; and the newer, largely undocumented migrants who began to arrive in the 1990s. What results is a portrait of Irishness as a dynamic, complex force in the history of American racial consciousness, pertinent not only to contemporary immigration debates but also to the larger questions of what it means to belong, what it means to be American.

Paddy Crerand's eagerly-awaited autobiography recounts the previously untold story of one of post-war football's fieriest characters. As a defensive midfielder, famed for his tough tackling, for Scotland, Celtic and Manchester United from 1957 to 1972, he was the Roy Keane of his day and this book holds nothing back on or off the field.As a Catholic born in the then infamous Gorbals area of Glasgow, Crerand was determined to escape from an extraordinarily tough background of family tragedy, religious bigotry and working in the Clyde shipyard, to become a professional footballer.As a Celtic player in the early years of Jock Stein's management, Paddy Crerand was forced to play in the shadow of the then dominant Rangers team. At Manchester United, however, he enjoyed great success in Sir Matt Busby's post-Munich Air Disaster team, winning two league titles, the FA Cup and the European Cup, and playing alongside the likes of George Best, Bobby Charlton, Denis Law and Nobby Stiles.In his own distinctively punchy style, Crerand reveals the full truth about his controversial friendship with the hard-drinking Protestant Rangers star 'Slim' Jim Baxter and the legendary Liverpool manager Bill Shankly; what it was like to be George Best's minder and Matt Busby's confidant; and his passionate involvement in Irish nationalist politics.Crerand’s life story is a genuine triumph over adversity told by someone whose informed opinion on Manchester United and football in general is as respected today as it was forty years ago.

Paddy, der kleine Pirat Paddy, der kleine Pirat, lebt mit seinen Freunden, der Schildkrote Krote und dem Papagei Bo, auf einer kleinen Insel. Ihre Zeit vertreiben sie sich mit Spielen rund um das Piratenhaus. Doch plotzlich wird die idyllische Dreisamkeit von einer einfallenden Piratengang gestort. Die wollen Paddys Insel einnehmen und dort ihre Schatze vergraben. Aber Paddy wei? sich zu helfen: Er erinnert die Eroberer daran, dass sich Piraten auf gar keinen Fall selbst uberfallen durfen. Die anderen bezweifeln, dass er ein richtiger Pirat ist. Sie stellen ihn auf die Probe. Hat er eine Augenklappe? Ein Schiff? Eine Piratenflagge? Und einen Schatz? Letzteres fehlt Paddy leider noch – zum eigenen Bedauern. Also macht sich der mutige kleine Pirat gemeinsam mit Krote auf die Suche nach einem Schatz – und entdeckt dabei Dinge, die viel wertvoller sind als Gold …