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An Undergraduate Seminar On Irish Musical Culture In Ireland And The Irish Diaspora In America, Including The Influence Of Irish Music On Appalachian Folk Music Culture, Frieda Eakins

Masters Theses

The following project establishes a concise, yet multifaceted design for a seminar on Irish musical culture. While it was initially developed as a course for its author to teach in the undergraduate, on-ground classroom, this project provides a framework adaptable enough for use by other instructors and/or for additional music seminars. This project is unique in its two-fold purpose in that the design and resources are directed to assist the instructor with streamlining course curriculum preparation, while the course content specific to the project when utilized offers students in the undergraduate college classroom a better understanding of Irish musical culture …

Ligia Grischa: A Successful Swiss Colony On The Dakota Territory Frontier, Todd Quinn, Karl Benedict, Jeff Dickey

Great Plains Quarterly

In 1877 a small group of Swiss immigrants from the Graubunden canton formed a cooperative with another Swiss group in Stillwater, Minnesota, to begin a colony in eastern South Dakota. These settlers founded the Badus Swiss colony on the open prairie in Lake County, Dakota Territory {later South Dakota}, based on cooperative rules written in Switzerland in 1424. This settlement was one of the last Swiss colonies created in the United States during the great nineteenth-century European migration, and one of the westernmost Swiss settlements in the United States.

There were two major factors that contributed to the Badus Swiss …

The Shanachie, Volume 24, Number 1, Connecticut Irish-American Historical Society

The Shanachie (CTIAHS)

This special issue of The Shanachie is titled Ireland, Irish-America and the Titanic. Commemorating the 100th anniversary of the sinking of Titanic, the issue includes a timeline of the sinking, illustrations and portraits, and historical reports of Irish who survived and those who did not.

The Shanachie, Volume 24, Number 3, Connecticut Irish-American Historical Society

The Shanachie (CTIAHS)

This issue of The Shanachie is dedicated to the contributions of some of the many Irish pace-setters, ground-breakers and radicals who have enriched 350 years of Connecticut history.

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