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This Could Have Been Mine: Scottish Gaelic Learners in North America
(2005-05-06)The Scottish Gaelic learners' movement is a recent development in North America that parallels the mainstream Scottish heritage movement in some ways, but is strongly oppositional to it in others. This essay describes ... -
Transplanted Traditions: An Assessment of Welsh Lore and Language in Argentina
(2006-07-27)For more than a hundred years, Welsh language and culture have survived in the Chubut province of Patagonia, Argentina. While the various stages of Welsh settlement have been well recorded in English, Welsh and Spanish, ... -
The War of the Tea Houses, or How Welsh Heritage in Patagonia Became a Valuable Commodity
(2009-07-09)The present article will explore how globalization and its economic implications have resulted in the commodification of Welsh heritage in Gaiman, a small town in the Argentine province of Chubut, with a special focus on ... -
The Auld Sod: Staging the Diaspora at the 1897 Irish Fair in New York City
(2013-10-28)The 1897 Irish Fair in New York City is significant for its map exhibit of a topographical map of Ireland, with soil from each county represented. For ten cents, participants could walk across the map and stand again on ... -
Milwaukee’s Early Irish and the Role of the Church in Diasporic Urban American Settlement and Assimilation, 1890-1922
(2015-03-10)Anthropologists recognize social institutions, such as families, schools, marketplaces, and churches, to be integral to the survival of urban immigrant diasporas. Scholars such as Harold Mytum (1994), Michael Parker Pearson ... -
Highland Canon Fodder: Scottish Gaelic Literature in North American Contexts
(2016-02-12)The assessment of the influence of Scottish literature and literary practice abroad, especially in the context of Scottish diasporas, has generally focused on fiction in English, particularly in the form of the novel. ...