Irishness beyond National Boundaries

• Main Author: Khasawneh, Hana
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: irlandés; transnacional; americano; identidad; hibridación; Irish; transnational; American; identity; hybridity; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/oaiart?codigo=6236597

My article investigates the transnational nature of the Irish Famine immigrants, recasting the Irish immigrant experience in America as that of minority which entered the hostile American pot. The Irish-American who portrayed themselves as transnational champions of freedom and democracy were resolved to maintain their complementary statuses as Irishmen and Americans. The Famine immigrants were aware of their fragile status in terms of their ethnic identity and their perceived place in the American society. The Irish diaspora in the United States occupies an interstitial time and space: no longer Irish and not yet Americans. The Irish immigrants experience a sense of belonging to the host community, as well as, a sense of attachment to Ireland. The Irish- American emerge as a race who throwing off the shackles of colonial oppression is seeking a new and more tolerant society. This article reinvestigated the cultural representation of Irish and immigrant Irish identity in America. My article champions cultural hybridity that infuses national and ethnic identities as contingent and culturally produced. The Irish nation was no longer bound to an island in the North Atlantic but was free to make new homes around the globe. Therefore, The Irish were an international imagined community. Este artículo investiga la naturaleza transnacional de los emigrantes irlandeses a causa de la Gran hambruna y su experiencia en América como una minoría recibida con cierta hostilidad. Los irlandeses en América lograron con éxito mantener su identidad de origen acercándose a los postulados del sueño americano y su identidad nacional, a pesar de su delicado estatus en términos de identidad y la percepción que de ellos tenía la sociedad americana de la época. La diáspora irlandesa en Estados Unidos ocupa un tercer espacio en términos espaciales y temporales, ya que dichos inmigrantes han experimentado un sentimiento de pertenencia a este nuevo país, al tiempo que mantenían fuertes vínculos identitarios con su nación de origen. Como ...