Use of Gaelic by Irish immigrants to the U.S., early 19th century?

[George Thompson]

There is an article on the Irish in NYC in The Multilingual Apple: Languages in New York City, edited by Ofelia García & Joshua A. Fishman.  2nd ed.  with a new foreword.  Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2002.  My recollection of this is that it says that the evidence that the Irish in NYC spoke Irish is remarkably scanty, although it's certain that they must have done so.  I have a few nice anecdotes from the 1820s about Irish speakers.

GAT

George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joel S. Berson" <Berson at ATT.NET>
Date: Saturday, January 26, 2008 1:32 pm
Subject: Use of Gaelic by Irish immigrants to the U.S., early 19th century?
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> Where might I find a discussion of the prevalence of (monolingual)
> Gaelic-speaking Irish among the immigrants to the U.S. in the first
> half of the 19th century?
>
> Joel
>
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