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

Published New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2021]

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Description 1 online resource Contents Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- 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 -- About the Author 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 Analysis Irish, Irish American, Gaelic, Philadelphia, Celtic, Celtic paramilitary, Gaelic sport, Irish community, political nationalism, Jurgen Habermas, public sphere, Irish voluntary associations, Irish culture Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 28, 2021) Subject Irish Americans -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Ethnic identity Irish Americans -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Social life and customs -- 19th century Irish -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 19th century Irish language -- Social aspects -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia Irish Americans -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 19th century Community life -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 19th century HISTORY -- General. Irish language -- Social aspects Irish Americans -- Social life and customs Irish Americans -- Ethnic identity Irish Americans Irish Community life Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781978815476 1978815476 9781978815490 1978815492

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