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Irish 1. another name for Irish Gaelic How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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She is shrewd on Bowen's Irishness, her complicated childhood and adolescence, her long and happy but probably companionate marriage, her love affairs, her literary and social friendships, her accomplishments. In Rachel Bluntzer Hebert's literary "ballad" that draws upon the folk legends, this tragic transformation from Irishness to "whiteness" is an implicit, repressed theme. This lay interpretation of Irishness was reinforced with varying degrees of int ensity by clerical leaders, who viewed the metaphor of Irish nationality within a predominantly religious frame of reference and extolled the virtues of a holy and cruelly oppressed 'Isle of Erin'. |
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