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Linguistic Diasporas, Narrative and Performance

The Irish in Argentina

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  1. Sarah O'Brien

    1. Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

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  • Explores the present-day Irish Diaspora in Argentina by using a sociolinguistic theoretical framework to uncover contemporary Hiberno-Argentine identity
  • Features unedited oral narratives that allow readers to engage with spoken discourse
  • Provides an ethnographic portrait of a previously understudied Irish descendant community

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction

    • Sarah O’Brien
    Pages 1-8

  3. Language, Memory and Diaspora

    • Sarah O’Brien
    Pages 9-27

  4. Do They Not Know What I Want to Say?

    • Sarah O’Brien
    Pages 29-45

  5. To Nowhere, to Any Place

    • Sarah O’Brien
    Pages 47-76

  6. An Affected Life

    • Sarah O’Brien
    Pages 77-91

  7. Getting on with the Neighbors

    • Sarah O’Brien
    Pages 93-110

  8. Eating Our Words: Food, Language and the Preservation of Identity

    • Sarah O’Brien
    Pages 111-133

  9. Festivalizations of Irish Ethnicity

    • Sarah O’Brien
    Pages 135-151

  10. Post-Peronism and the Collapse of Community

    • Sarah O’Brien
    Pages 153-172

  11. Conclusion

    • Sarah O’Brien
    Pages 173-186

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 187-203
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About this book

This book explores the present-day Irish Diaspora in Argentina, using oral narrative and a sociolinguistic theoretical framework to draw out the features that define contemporary Hiberno-Argentine identity.  The author analyzes the spoken memories and discourses of Irish-Argentine descendants to trace the socio-political evolution of a bilingual, bicultural community from World War II to the present day. In so doing, O’Brien reveals a legacy of emigration that is without precedent in the global Irish Diaspora, and which is deeply relevant to today’s global Irish citizenry in its challenging of preconceived notions of what it is to be Irish in the New World. As well as contributing to understandings of an immigrant linguistic journey over three generations, the book also provides a vital ethnographic portrait of an Irish descendant community that is acutely aware of its vulnerability and invisibility in an increasingly pluralistic South American society. This book will appeal to aninterdisciplinary audience including scholars of migration, oral history, folklore, bilingualism, memory, sociolinguistics, narrative performance and Irish Diaspora studies.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

    Sarah O'Brien

About the author

Sarah O’Brien is Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, and Director of the Centre for English Language Learning and Teaching there. She was formerly Director of Bilingual Education at Northern New Mexico College, USA, and a recipient of the IRCHSS doctoral award for her research on the Irish in Post-World War II Britain. Her publications explore linguistic and cultural acquisition in contemporary migrant communities with a particular focus on Latin America and Ireland.



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