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By Sarah O'Brien

This ebook explores the present-day Irish Diaspora in Argentina, utilizing oral narrative and a sociolinguistic theoretical framework to attract out the beneficial properties that outline modern Hiberno-Argentine id.  The writer analyzes the spoken thoughts and discourses of Irish-Argentine descendants to track the socio-political evolution of a bilingual, bicultural neighborhood from global warfare II to the current day. In so doing, O’Brien unearths a legacy of emigration that's with out precedent within the international Irish Diaspora, and that is deeply appropriate to today’s international Irish citizenry in its difficult of preconceived notions of what it's to be Irish within the New global. in addition to contributing to understandings of an immigrant linguistic trip over 3 generations, the ebook additionally presents an important ethnographic portrait of an Irish descendant group that's aware of its vulnerability and invisibility in an more and more pluralistic South American society. This ebook will entice an interdisciplinary viewers together with students of migration, oral historical past, folklore, bilingualism, reminiscence, sociolinguistics, narrative functionality and Irish Diaspora studies.

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