North American Gaels : speech, story, and song in the diaspora /
edited by Natasha Sumner and Aidan Doyle.
- Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, (c)2020.
- 1 online resource.
- McGill-Queen's studies in ethnic history. Series two ; 49 .
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.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Kenneth E. Nilsen (1947-2012): Gaisgeach nan Gàidheal (Champion of the Gaels) / "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 / Vernacular Irish Orthographies in the United States / Pádraig Phiarais Cúndún in America: Poet without a Public? / Irish-Language Folklore in An Gaodhal / Forming and Training an Army of Vindication: The Irish Echo, 1886-1894 / Early Use of Phonograph Recordings for Instruction in the Irish Language / Seán "Irish" Ó Súilleabháin: Butte's Irish Bard / "Agus cé'n chaoi ar thaithnigh na Canadas leat?" (And how did you like Canada?): Irish-Language Canadian Novels from the 1920s and 1930s / John MacLean's "New World" Secular Songs: A Poet, His Print Editors, and Oral Tradition / Two Satires, Three Men, and a Gaelic Newspaper: A Nineteenth-Century Tale / "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 / Gaelic Heroes of the True North: Alexander Fraser's Literary Interventions in Canadian Gaeldom / Betraying Beetles and Guarding Geese: Animal Apocrypha in Scottish and Nova Scotian Gaelic Folklore / Annie Johnston and Nova Scotia / "Togaidh an Obair an Fhianais" (The Work Bears Witness): Kenneth Nilsen's Gaelic Columns in the Casket, 1987-1996 / Natasha Sumner -- Pádraig Ó Liatháin -- Nancy Stenson -- Tony Ó Floinn -- Tomás Ó hÍde -- Matthew Knight -- William Mahon -- Ciara Ryan -- Pádraig Ó Siadhail -- Robert Dunbar -- Michael Linkletter -- Tiber F.M. Falzett -- Michael Newton -- Kathleen Reddy -- Lorrie MacKinnon -- Catrìona NicÌomhair Parsons.
"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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Irish literature--History and criticism. Scottish Gaelic literature--History and criticism. Folk literature, Irish--History and criticism. Folk literature, Scottish Gaelic--History and criticism. Irish--History.--Canada Scots--History.--Canada Irish--History.--United States Scots--History.--United States