The Philadelphia Irish : nation, culture, and the rise of a Gaelic public sphere / Michael L. Mullan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mullan, Michael L. (Michael Leigh), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

Irish Americans--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Ethnic identity.

Irish Americans.

Irish Americans--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Social life and customs--19th century.

Irish--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History--19th century.

Irish.

Irish language--Social aspects--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

Irish language.

Irish Americans--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History--19th century.

Community life--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History--19th century.

Community life.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

vii, 233 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2021]

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"-- Provided by publisher.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Zebooker fund bookplate.

HSP Copy: The Lamberton Scots-Irish Collection

ISBN:

9781978815452

197881545X

9781978815469

1978815468

OCLC:

1198556791