The Philadelphia Irish - 9781978815469

The Philadelphia IrishNation, Culture, and the Rise of a Gaelic Public Sphere\nAuthor(s): Michael L. Mullan\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Rutgers University Press, United States\nImprint: Rutgers University Press\nISBN-13: 9781978815469, 978-1978815469\nSynopsis\nThis book 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.\n 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.