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Title: Irish Speakers & the Empire City

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Publication Year: 2014

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Abstract: Irish Speakers & the Empire City is a collaborative endeavor to try to identify and record the household information of residents of New York City born in Ireland who claimed Irish (Gaelic) as their mother tongue on the 1910 census. It is estimated that somewhere between 54,000 and 75,000 speakers of the Irish language were resident in New York City between the end of the Civil War and the early twentieth centuryapproximately 20-25% of the overall Irish population in the city. Irish was, in other words, one of the many languages spoken in this dynamic immigrant city other than English at the turn of the centuryalbeit one whose history has been difficult to track down. This web project, in addition to building a volunteer-sourced dataset of NYC residents who claimed Irish as a mother tongue, utilizes IPUMS data to offer a broader perspective on the demographics and linguistic backgrounds of the Irish-born in NYC as a whole.

Url: http://www.nyuirish.net/irishlanguagehistory/findings-to-date/

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Authors: Wolf, Nicholas

Publisher: Glucksman Ireland House, New York University

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Other, Race and Ethnicity

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