Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (x, 511 pages)
ISBN:
9780228005179
,
9780228005186
Serie:
McGill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History v.2.49
Inhalt:
A groundbreaking exploration of the literature and folklore of North America's Irish and Scottish Gaelic-speaking diaspora since the eighteenth century. North American Gaels shines new light on the ways Irish and Scottish Gaels have left an enduring mark through speech, story, and song.
Inhalt:
Cover -- NORTH AMERICAN GAELS -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- North American Gaels -- 1 Kenneth E. Nilsen (1947-2012): Gaisgeach nan Gàidheal (Champion of the Gaels) -- IRISH GAELS -- 2 "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 -- 3 Vernacular Irish Orthographies in the United States -- 4 Pádraig Phiarais Cúndún in America: Poet without a Public? -- 5 Irish-Language Folklore in An Gaodhal -- 6 Forming and Training an Army of Vindication: The Irish Echo, 1886-1894 -- 7 Early Use of Phonograph Recordings for Instruction in the Irish Language -- 8 Seán "Irish" Ó Súilleabháin: Butte's Irish Bard -- 9 "Agus cé'n chaoi ar thaithnigh na Canadas leat?" (And How Did You Like Canada?): Irish-Language Canadian Novels from the 1920s and 1930s -- SCOTTISH GAELS -- 10 John MacLean's "New World" Secular Songs: A Poet, His Print Editors, and Oral Tradition -- 11 Two Satires, Three Men, and a Gaelic Newspaper: A Nineteenth-Century Tale -- 12 "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 -- 13 Gaelic Heroes of the True North: Alexander Fraser's Literary Interventions in Canadian Gaeldom -- 14 Betraying Beetles and Guarding Geese: Animal Apocrypha in Scottish and Nova Scotian Gaelic Folklore -- 15 Annie Johnston and Nova Scotia -- 16 "Togaidh an Obair an Fhianais" (The Work Bears Witness): Kenneth Nilsen's Gaelic Columns in the Casket, 1987-1996 -- Publications by Kenneth E. Nilsen -- Contributors -- Index.
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Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780228003786
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780228003793
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780228003786
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Nordamerika
;
Schottland
;
Irland
;
Kultur
;
Gälische Sprachen
;
Diaspora
;
Soziolinguistik
;
Geschichte
;
Irisch
;
Volksliteratur
;
Geschichte
;
Irisch
;
Volksliteratur
;
Geschichte
;
Nordamerika
;
Schottland
;
Irland
;
Kultur
;
Gälische Sprachen
;
Diaspora
;
Soziolinguistik
;
Geschichte
;
Aufsatzsammlung
