Seeking Patriotic Respectability

The Complexities of Irish-Language Identity in the United States, 1870-1914

Nicholas Wolf

New York University

An Gaodhal

f. 1881, Brooklyn

Ambrose Morgan Deely

1866-1901

Michael Deely

1830-1893

Felix McCosker

1834-1915

John O'Mahony

1815-1877

Image: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division

Mícheál Ó Lócháin

1836-1899

"...any Irish-speaking person can read Irish as soon as he can give the proper sounds of the letters."

J.J. Lyons, An Gaodhal, 1884

Saint Patrick's Salve

An Gaodhal advertisement, 1885