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The Resource North American Gaels : speech, story, and song in the diaspora, edited by Natasha Sumner and Aidan Doyle, (electronic resource)

North American Gaels : speech, story, and song in the diaspora, edited by Natasha Sumner and Aidan Doyle, (electronic resource)

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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, they 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. "--
  • "A groundbreaking exploration of the literature and folklore of North America's Irish and Scottish Gaelic-speaking diaspora since the eighteenth century."--From publisher's website
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
1 online resource (x, 511 pages)
Note
This book is dedicated to the memory of Professor Kenneth E. Nilsen, who held the Sister Saint Veronica Chair in Gaelic Studies at St Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, for twenty eight years before his death in 2012
Contents
  • Kenneth E. Nilsen (1947-2012): Gaisgeach nan Gàidheal (Champion of the Gaels) / Natasha Sumner
  • "An tan do bhidh Donchadh Ruadh a tTalamh an Éisg" (The time that Donncha Rua was in Newfoundland]: An Eighteenth-Century Irish Poet in the New World / Pádraig Ó Liatháin
  • Vernacular Irish Orthographies in the United States / Nancy Stenson
  • Pádraig Phiarais Cúndún in America: Poet without a Public? / Tony Ó Floinn
  • Irish-Language Folklore in An Gaodhal / Tomás Ó hÍde
  • Forming and Training an Army of Vindication: The Irish Echo, 1886-1894 / Matthew Knight
  • Early Use of Phonograph Recordings for Instruction in the Irish Language / William Mahon
  • Seán "Irish" Ó Súilleabháin: Butte's Irish Bard / Ciara Ryan
  • "Agus cé'n chaoi ar thaithnigh na Canadas leat?" (And how did you like Canada?): Irish-Language Canadian Novels from the 1920s and 1930s / Pádraig Ó Siadhail
  • John MacLean's "New World" Secular Songs: A Poet, His Print Editors, and Oral Tradition / Robert Dunbar
  • Two Satires, Three Men, and a Gaelic Newspaper: A Nineteenth-Century Tale / Michael Linkletter
  • "Rachainn Fhathast air m'Eòlas" (I'd Go Yet by My Experience):(Re)collecting Nineteenth-Century Scottish Gaelic Songs and Singing from Prince Edward Island / Tiber F.M. Falzett
  • Gaelic Heroes of the True North: Alexander Fraser's Literary Interventions in Canadian Gaeldom / Michael Newton
  • Betraying Beetles and Guarding Geese: Animal Apocrypha in Scottish and Nova Scotian Gaelic Folklore / Kathleen Reddy
  • Annie Johnston and Nova Scotia / Lorrie MacKinnon
  • "Togaidh an Obair an Fhianais" (The Work Bears Witness): Kenneth Nilsen's Gaelic Columns in the Casket, 1987-1996 / Catrìona NicÌomhair Parsons
Isbn
9780228003793
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Label
North American Gaels : speech, story, and song in the diaspora
Title
North American Gaels
Title remainder
speech, story, and song in the diaspora
Statement of responsibility
edited by Natasha Sumner and Aidan Doyle
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Subject
Language
eng
Summary
  • "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, they 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. "--
  • "A groundbreaking exploration of the literature and folklore of North America's Irish and Scottish Gaelic-speaking diaspora since the eighteenth century."--From publisher's website
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Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
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1947-2012
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  • Sumner, Natasha
  • Doyle, Aidan
  • Nilsen, Kenneth E.
Series statement
McGill-Queen's studies in ethnic history. Series two
Series volume
49
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  • Irish literature
  • Scottish Gaelic literature
  • Folk literature, Irish
  • Folk literature, Scottish Gaelic
  • Irish
  • Scots
  • Irish
  • Scots
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North American Gaels : speech, story, and song in the diaspora, edited by Natasha Sumner and Aidan Doyle, (electronic resource)
Instantiates
Publication
Note
This book is dedicated to the memory of Professor Kenneth E. Nilsen, who held the Sister Saint Veronica Chair in Gaelic Studies at St Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, for twenty eight years before his death in 2012
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 475-487) and index (pages 489-511)
Contents
Kenneth E. Nilsen (1947-2012): Gaisgeach nan Gàidheal (Champion of the Gaels) / Natasha Sumner -- "An tan do bhidh Donchadh Ruadh a tTalamh an Éisg" (The time that Donncha Rua was in Newfoundland]: An Eighteenth-Century Irish Poet in the New World / Pádraig Ó Liatháin -- Vernacular Irish Orthographies in the United States / Nancy Stenson -- Pádraig Phiarais Cúndún in America: Poet without a Public? / Tony Ó Floinn -- Irish-Language Folklore in An Gaodhal / Tomás Ó hÍde -- Forming and Training an Army of Vindication: The Irish Echo, 1886-1894 / Matthew Knight -- Early Use of Phonograph Recordings for Instruction in the Irish Language / William Mahon -- Seán "Irish" Ó Súilleabháin: Butte's Irish Bard / Ciara Ryan -- "Agus cé'n chaoi ar thaithnigh na Canadas leat?" (And how did you like Canada?): Irish-Language Canadian Novels from the 1920s and 1930s / Pádraig Ó Siadhail -- John MacLean's "New World" Secular Songs: A Poet, His Print Editors, and Oral Tradition / Robert Dunbar -- Two Satires, Three Men, and a Gaelic Newspaper: A Nineteenth-Century Tale / Michael Linkletter -- "Rachainn Fhathast air m'Eòlas" (I'd Go Yet by My Experience):(Re)collecting Nineteenth-Century Scottish Gaelic Songs and Singing from Prince Edward Island / Tiber F.M. Falzett -- Gaelic Heroes of the True North: Alexander Fraser's Literary Interventions in Canadian Gaeldom / Michael Newton -- Betraying Beetles and Guarding Geese: Animal Apocrypha in Scottish and Nova Scotian Gaelic Folklore / Kathleen Reddy -- Annie Johnston and Nova Scotia / Lorrie MacKinnon -- "Togaidh an Obair an Fhianais" (The Work Bears Witness): Kenneth Nilsen's Gaelic Columns in the Casket, 1987-1996 / Catrìona NicÌomhair Parsons
Control code
ssj0002556103
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource (x, 511 pages)
Form of item
online
Governing access note
Access restricted to subscribing institutions
Isbn
9780228003793
Lccn
2020446740
Other physical details
illustrations
Specific material designation
remote
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(WaSeSS)ssj0002556103
Label
North American Gaels : speech, story, and song in the diaspora, edited by Natasha Sumner and Aidan Doyle, (electronic resource)
Publication
Note
This book is dedicated to the memory of Professor Kenneth E. Nilsen, who held the Sister Saint Veronica Chair in Gaelic Studies at St Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, for twenty eight years before his death in 2012
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 475-487) and index (pages 489-511)
Contents
Kenneth E. Nilsen (1947-2012): Gaisgeach nan Gàidheal (Champion of the Gaels) / Natasha Sumner -- "An tan do bhidh Donchadh Ruadh a tTalamh an Éisg" (The time that Donncha Rua was in Newfoundland]: An Eighteenth-Century Irish Poet in the New World / Pádraig Ó Liatháin -- Vernacular Irish Orthographies in the United States / Nancy Stenson -- Pádraig Phiarais Cúndún in America: Poet without a Public? / Tony Ó Floinn -- Irish-Language Folklore in An Gaodhal / Tomás Ó hÍde -- Forming and Training an Army of Vindication: The Irish Echo, 1886-1894 / Matthew Knight -- Early Use of Phonograph Recordings for Instruction in the Irish Language / William Mahon -- Seán "Irish" Ó Súilleabháin: Butte's Irish Bard / Ciara Ryan -- "Agus cé'n chaoi ar thaithnigh na Canadas leat?" (And how did you like Canada?): Irish-Language Canadian Novels from the 1920s and 1930s / Pádraig Ó Siadhail -- John MacLean's "New World" Secular Songs: A Poet, His Print Editors, and Oral Tradition / Robert Dunbar -- Two Satires, Three Men, and a Gaelic Newspaper: A Nineteenth-Century Tale / Michael Linkletter -- "Rachainn Fhathast air m'Eòlas" (I'd Go Yet by My Experience):(Re)collecting Nineteenth-Century Scottish Gaelic Songs and Singing from Prince Edward Island / Tiber F.M. Falzett -- Gaelic Heroes of the True North: Alexander Fraser's Literary Interventions in Canadian Gaeldom / Michael Newton -- Betraying Beetles and Guarding Geese: Animal Apocrypha in Scottish and Nova Scotian Gaelic Folklore / Kathleen Reddy -- Annie Johnston and Nova Scotia / Lorrie MacKinnon -- "Togaidh an Obair an Fhianais" (The Work Bears Witness): Kenneth Nilsen's Gaelic Columns in the Casket, 1987-1996 / Catrìona NicÌomhair Parsons
Control code
ssj0002556103
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource (x, 511 pages)
Form of item
online
Governing access note
Access restricted to subscribing institutions
Isbn
9780228003793
Lccn
2020446740
Other physical details
illustrations
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(WaSeSS)ssj0002556103

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