Louisiana State University LSU Digital Commons LSU Doctoral Dissertations Graduate School 2002 Performing hyphenates: a study in contemporary Irish-American identity and cultural performance Patrick Michael Bynane Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_dissertations Part of the Theatre and Performance Studies Commons Recommended Citation Bynane, Patrick Michael, "Performing hyphenates: a study in contemporary Irish-American identity and cultural performance" (2002). LSU Doctoral Dissertations. 2813. https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_dissertations/2813 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate School at LSU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in LSU Doctoral Dissertations by an authorized graduate school editor of LSU Digital Commons. For more information, please
[email protected]. PERFORMING HYPHENATES: A STUDY IN CONTEMPORARY IRISH-AMERICAN IDENTITY AND CULTURAL PERFORMANCE A Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in The Department of Theatre by Patrick Michael Bynane B.A., Ashland University, 1993 M.A., Southwest Missouri State University, 1995 December 2002 ©Copyright 2002 Patrick Michael Bynane All rights reserved ii For my mother and father, in honor of all their support. And for James McCoy, my great-uncle, without whom my understanding of Irish-America would have been so much the poorer. iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The number of people to whom I owe a debt of gratitude would take the length of another complete dissertation. Those few mentioned here are simply the ones who haven’t escaped my exhausted mind.