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America’s Emerald Isle: Irish Language and Identity on Beaver Island, 2013

Also America's Emerald Isle · Keating Irish-language research poster

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Date2013
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
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Date
2013
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Modern era
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Beaver Island

Summary

Maureen Keating’s held 2013 University of Notre Dame research poster presents a secondary synthesis of Irish language and identity on Beaver Island. It frames its findings through archival material and oral-history interviews, and connects language use, music and folklore, Arranmore ties, twinning, and modern heritage practice.

Evidence and limits

The poster establishes its author, title, institutional context, research questions, stated methods, and attributed findings. It is useful as a map to a research conversation, but it does not itself provide a complete interview corpus, a language census, a verbatim Mass record, or independent proof of every historical statement printed on the poster.

Claims about a named speaker, a precise period of Irish-language use, church practice, or a specific tradition must be checked against the poster’s cited sources or an appropriate primary/community source. The KB therefore preserves the poster as a secondary research artifact rather than treating it as a stand-alone account of island identity.

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Sources

  1. Held research poster, directly visually reviewed. It presents an authorial synthesis based on archival material and oral-history interviews, with a bibliography pointing to Connors, Rotman, and other works. Its reported language, Mass, interview, twinning, and identity findings require attribution to this secondary presentation or to their underlying sources; the poster is not a transcript of interviews or an original nineteenth-century record.
    documents · keating_americas_emerald_isle_poster
  2. Project provenance sidecar for Maureen Keating’s “America’s Emerald Isle” poster.
    Records the Notre Dame public URL, retrieval timestamp, checksum, 1,184,464-byte file size, and author-rights/public-posting status. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
    documents · keating_americas_emerald_isle_poster.provenance

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Beaver Island Archive, “America’s Emerald Isle: Irish Language and Identity on Beaver Island, 2013”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/documents/keating-americas-emerald-isle-poster-2013/, accessed [date], citing Maureen Keating, *America’s Emerald Isle: Irish Language and Identity on Beaver Island, Michigan*, University of Notre Dame research poster, 2013. (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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