Download or read book Irish Stereotypes in Vaudeville, 1865-1905 written by Jennifer Mooney and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-09-16 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vaudeville is often viewed as the source of some of the crude stereotypes that positioned the Irish immigrant in America as the antithesis of native-born American citizens. Using primary archival material, Mooney argues that the vaudeville stage was an important venue in which an Irish-American identity was constructed, negotiated, and refined.