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The Lost Tribes of the Irish in the South / An Address at the Annual Dinner of the American Irish Historical Society, January 6, 1917 cover

The Lost Tribes of the Irish in the South / An Address at the Annual Dinner of the American Irish Historical Society, January 6, 1917

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The speaker delivers a witty, reflective address that traces Irish influence in the American South by contrasting northern and southern temperaments, customs, and arts. Using personal ancestry, musical reminiscence, and anecdote, the talk explores how regional environment shapes character, celebrating southern hospitality, romance, literary instincts, and resilient optimism while acknowledging northern tendencies toward commerce and practical enterprise. With humor and historical observation, the address argues for a blended cultural identity in which Irish traditions contribute notably to southern storytelling, social life, and civic memory, presented through vivid examples and lighthearted commentary.

THE LOST TRIBES OF THE IRISH IN THE SOUTH.

The after-dinner address of Mr. Irvin S. Cobb of Kentucky—so well known throughout the length and breadth of the land as an American of Americans and writer of vivid stories of American life, throbbing with pathos, alive with infectious humor, keen observation and dramatic force; as a war correspondent and picturer of the naked horrors of war; as a lecturer and general publicist—will be hailed with interest and pleasure everywhere. The American Irish Historical Society does itself the honor of issuing the address in this form in advance of its appearance in the Quarterly Review of the Society, that it may be more widely known and the facts it sets forth more widely grasped. It treats its subject—the Irish share in the early upbuilding of the Southern States-in a masterly way, in direct line with the Society’s motto, “To make better known the Irish chapter in American history.”

Editors are cordially invited to reproduce the address in whole or in part.

JOSEPH I. C. CLARKE,

President-General,
American-Irish Historical Society.

New York, January, 1917.