Michael L Mullan

The Philadelphia Irish

Nation, Culture, and the Rise of a Gaelic Public Sphere

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Produktbeschreibung

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 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9781978815469
• ISBN-10: 1978815468
• Artikelnr.: 60366756

Autorenporträt

MICHAEL L. MULLAN is a professor of sociology at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania. He was also the head men's tennis team coach there for forty years where his teams won three N.C.A.A. Division III championships; he continues to be active on the international veteran's tennis circuit. Mullan holds Ph.D.s in both sociology and history.

Inhaltsangabe

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