Ebest includes a brief discussion of the "New Irish" emigrants who came to America in the 1980s, and who viewed themselves as "commuters" rather than as Irish Americans. "This refusal to self-identify therefore precludes their writing from this study," Ebest decides, reminding me that I once...
Thus the Celtic element entered into the ethnic composition of the English people, the basis of which was made up of the conquering Germanic tribes (the English nationality was later infused with emigrants from Scandinavia and France). The chief trait of the establishment of feudalism among the ...
literature of the Icelandic emigrants in Canada. The country’s rapid economic and political development was reflected in the poetry of E. Benediktsson (1864–1940), who glorified Iceland’s natural wealth and technological progress. The poetry of D. Stefansson (born 1895), Stefan fra Hvita-...
The introduction of Scottish and Welsh representative assemblies has raised the question of whether England should have its own parliament, separate from that of the United Kingdom, with powers similar to those of the Scottish body, or of whether Scottish and Welsh members of the British ...