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North American Gaels : speech, story, and song in the diaspora /

"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Sumner, Natasha (Editor ), Doyle, Aidan (Lecturer in Irish) (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2020.
Colección:McGill-Queen's studies in ethnic history. 49.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.