The Philadelphia Irish :
nation, culture, and the rise of a Gaelic public sphere /
Michael L. Mullan.
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| Summary: | "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"-- |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New Brunswick :
Rutgers University Press,
[2021]
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index. Physical description: vii, 233 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm more |
| ISBN: | 9781978815452 197881545X 9781978815469 1978815468 |
Table of Contents:
Outlines of a Gaelic public sphere
Inserting the Gaelic in the public sphere
Irish Philadelphia in and out of the Gaelic sphere
Transatlantic origins of the Irish American Voluntary Association
A microanalysis of Irish American civic life : Ireland's Donegal and Cavan emerge in Philadelphia
The forging of a collective consciousness : militant Irish nationalism and civic life in Gaelic Philadelphia
Sport, culture and nation amont the Irish of Philadelphia
A Gaelic public sphere : its rise and fall.
Outlines of a Gaelic public sphere
Inserting the Gaelic in the public sphere
Irish Philadelphia in and out of the Gaelic sphere
Transatlantic origins of the Irish American Voluntary Association
A microanalysis of Irish American civic life : Ireland's Donegal and Cavan emerge in Philadelphia
The forging of a collective consciousness : militant Irish nationalism and civic life in Gaelic Philadelphia
Sport, culture and nation amont the Irish of Philadelphia
A Gaelic public sphere : its rise and fall.