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IrishPeople of Irish culture from Ireland or those of Irish descent. The Irish mainly speak English, though there are approximately 30,000-100,000 speakers of Irish Gaelic (see Gaelic language), a Celtic language belonging to the Indo-European family. Celtic tribes, the ancestors of the Irish, migrated to Ireland about 300 BC. Later known as Gaels (Irishmen), they settled on the Isle of Man and southwestern Scotland, and established colonies in western Wales, Devon, and Cornwall. |
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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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