The Philadelphia Irish : nation, culture, and the rise of a Gaelic public sphere
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Published
New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2021].
Physical Desc
vii, 233 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Status
Nonfiction - Adult Books
308.891 MUL
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308.891 MUL
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LC Subjects
Community life -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 19th century.
Irish -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 19th century.
Irish Americans -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Ethnic identity.
Irish Americans -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 19th century.
Irish Americans -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
Irish language -- Social aspects -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Irish -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 19th century.
Irish Americans -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Ethnic identity.
Irish Americans -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 19th century.
Irish Americans -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
Irish language -- Social aspects -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
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Published
New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2021].
Format
Book
Language
English
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Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description
"This monograph describes the flowering of the Irish American community and the 1890s growth of a Gaelic public sphere in Philadelphia, a movement inspired by the cultural awakening in native Ireland, transplanted and acted upon in Philadelphia's robust Irish community. The Philadelphia Irish embraced this export of cultural nationalism, reveled in Gaelic symbols, and endorsed the Gaelic language, political nationalism, Celtic paramilitarism, Gaelic sport and a broad ethnic culture. Using Jurgen Habermas's concept of a public sphere the author reveals how the Irish constructed a plebian "counter" public of Gaelic meaning through various mechanisms of communication, the ethnic press, the meeting rooms of Irish societies, the consumption of circulating pamphlets, oratory, songs, ballads, poems, and conversation. Settled in working class neighborhoods of vast spatial separation in an industrial city, the Irish resisted a parochialism identified with neighborhood and instead extended themselves to construct a vibrant, culturally engaged network of Irish rebirth in Philadelphia, a public of Gaelic meaning"--,Provided by publisher.
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