ISBN:
9781978815490
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (242 p.)
,
23 b-w images, 19 tables
Edition:
2021
DDC:
305.8916/2074811
Keywords:
Geschichte 1890-1914
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Iren
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Ethnische Identität
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Kulturelle Identität
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Nationalismus
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Soziale Situation
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Community life HIstory 19th century
;
Community life History 19th century
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Irish Americans Ethnic identity
;
Irish Americans HIstory 19th century
;
Irish Americans History 19th century
;
Irish Americans Social life and customs 19th century
;
Irish language Social aspects
;
Irish language Social aspects
;
Irish HIstory 19th century
;
Irish History 19th century
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HISTORY / General
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USA
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Philadelphia, Pa.
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Irish, Irish American, Gaelic, Philadelphia, Celtic, Celtic paramilitary, Gaelic sport, Irish community, political nationalism, Jurgen Habermas, public sphere, Irish voluntary associations, Irish culture
Abstract:
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 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.
Note:
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Aug 2021)
DOI:
10.36019/9781978815490
URL:
https://doi.org/10.36019/9781978815490
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781978815490
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