North American Gaels

North American Gaels
Title North American Gaels PDF eBook
Author Natasha Sumner
Publisher McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Pages
Release 2020-11-18
Genre Literary Collections
ISBN 0228005175

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A mere 150 years ago Scottish Gaelic was the third most widely spoken language in Canada, and Irish was spoken by hundreds of thousands of people in the United States. A new awareness of the large North American Gaelic diaspora, long overlooked by historians, folklorists, and literary scholars, has emerged in recent decades. North American Gaels, representing the first tandem exploration of these related migrant ethnic groups, examines the myriad ways Gaelic-speaking immigrants from marginalized societies have negotiated cultural spaces for themselves in their new homeland. In the macaronic verses of a Newfoundland fisherman, the pointed addresses of an Ontario essayist, the compositions of a Montana miner, and lively exchanges in newspapers from Cape Breton to Boston to New York, these groups proclaim their presence in vibrant traditional modes fluently adapted to suit North American climes. Through careful investigations of this diasporic Gaelic narrative and its context, from the mid-eighteenth century to the twenty-first, the book treats such overarching themes as the sociolinguistics of minority languages, connection with one's former home, and the tension between the desire for modernity and the enduring influence of tradition. Staking a claim for Gaelic studies on this continent, North American Gaels shines new light on the ways Irish and Scottish Gaels have left an enduring mark through speech, story, and song.

North American Gaels

North American Gaels
Title North American Gaels PDF eBook
Author Natasha Sumner
Publisher McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Pages 294
Release 2020-11-18
Genre Literary Collections
ISBN 0228005183

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A mere 150 years ago Scottish Gaelic was the third most widely spoken language in Canada, and Irish was spoken by hundreds of thousands of people in the United States. A new awareness of the large North American Gaelic diaspora, long overlooked by historians, folklorists, and literary scholars, has emerged in recent decades. North American Gaels, representing the first tandem exploration of these related migrant ethnic groups, examines the myriad ways Gaelic-speaking immigrants from marginalized societies have negotiated cultural spaces for themselves in their new homeland. In the macaronic verses of a Newfoundland fisherman, the pointed addresses of an Ontario essayist, the compositions of a Montana miner, and lively exchanges in newspapers from Cape Breton to Boston to New York, these groups proclaim their presence in vibrant traditional modes fluently adapted to suit North American climes. Through careful investigations of this diasporic Gaelic narrative and its context, from the mid-eighteenth century to the twenty-first, the book treats such overarching themes as the sociolinguistics of minority languages, connection with one's former home, and the tension between the desire for modernity and the enduring influence of tradition. Staking a claim for Gaelic studies on this continent, North American Gaels shines new light on the ways Irish and Scottish Gaels have left an enduring mark through speech, story, and song.

North American Gaels

North American Gaels
Title North American Gaels PDF eBook
Author Natasha Sumner
Publisher
Pages 512
Release 2020-11-18
Genre History
ISBN 9780228003793

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A groundbreaking exploration of the literature and folklore of North America's Irish and Scottish Gaelic-speaking diaspora since the eighteenth century.

Emigrants and Exiles

Emigrants and Exiles
Title Emigrants and Exiles PDF eBook
Author Kerby A. Miller
Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
Pages 704
Release 1988
Genre History
ISBN 9780195051872

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Explains the reasons for the large Irish emigration, and examines the problems they faced adjusting to new lives in the United States.

Kingdom of the Mind

Kingdom of the Mind
Title Kingdom of the Mind PDF eBook
Author Peter E. Rider
Publisher McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Pages 373
Release 2006-04-05
Genre History
ISBN 0773584145

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In A Kingdom of the Mind ethnographers, material culture specialists, and contributors from a wide variety of disciplines explore the impact of the Scots on Canadian life, showing how the Scots' image of their homeland and themselves played an important role in the emerging definition of what it meant to be Canadian.

White People, Indians, and Highlanders

White People, Indians, and Highlanders
Title White People, Indians, and Highlanders PDF eBook
Author Colin G. Calloway
Publisher OUP USA
Pages 391
Release 2008-07-03
Genre History
ISBN 0195340124

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A comparative approach to the American Indians and Scottish Highlanders, this book examines the experiences of clans and tribal societies, which underwent parallel experiences on the peripheries of Britain's empire in Britain, the United States, and Canada.

Exiles and Islanders

Exiles and Islanders
Title Exiles and Islanders PDF eBook
Author Brendan O'Grady
Publisher McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Pages 340
Release 2004
Genre History
ISBN 9780773527683

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The first comprehensive account of the Irish settlers of Prince Edward Island.