The Philadelphia Irish : : Nation, Culture, and the Rise of a Gaelic Public Sphere / / Michael L. Mullan.

This book 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 thi...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English
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Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (242 p.) :; 23 b-w images, 19 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1 Outlines of a Gaelic Public Sphere
  • 2 Inserting the Gaelic in the Public Sphere
  • 3 Irish Philadelphia in and out of the Gaelic Sphere
  • 4 Transatlantic Origins of Irish American Voluntary Associations
  • 5 A Microanalysis of Irish American Civic Life: Ireland’s Donegal and Cavan Emerge in Philadelphia
  • 6 The Forging of a Collective Consciousness: Militant Irish Nationalism and Civic Life in Gaelic Philadelphia
  • 7 Sport, Culture, and Nation among the Irish of Philadelphia
  • Conclusion A Gaelic Public Sphere—Its Rise and Fall
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Index
  • About the Author