Abstract
Billy Kennedy, a journalist for the Belfast Newsletter and author of numerous books on Ulster-Scots history, concluded his pamphlet on the Ulster-Scots diaspora in the United States (published by the Ulster-Scots Agency) with the following:The notion of a US diaspora has become a central feature of the Ulster-Scots story of peoplehood. Drawing on a claim of ethnic kinship, a broad variety of components of US history and identity have been appropriated. As the above quotation connotes, the US diaspora is used to describe more than just international dispersion of a people, but a sense of deep interconnectivity. There is an elective affinity between the Ulster-Scots and the American Dream, and by extension, there is some ‘American Dream’ within the Ulster-Scots.
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Notes
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To use Brubaker’s (2005) terminology.
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The argument developed in this chapter is also outlined in my previous work (Gardner 2018).
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In fact, the US diaspora is frequently referenced in order to explain Ulster-Scots actions in Irish history.
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Where interviewees considered themselves to be speaking in Ulster-Scots, I transcribed using common Ulster-Scots spelling forms. This was done in order to permit the interviewee to be recorded in their own terms, rather as a means of legitimising Ulster-Scots as a language.
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To return to the question of power in the production of stories discussed in Chap. 2, we can consider how normative and ideological systems of power play a role in processes of ethnic narrative invention-discovery.
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Also Dál Riata or Dalriata.
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Most. (Note: out of respect for my interviewees, where it would appear that they believed themselves to be speaking Ulster-Scots, I aimed to transcribe the data using commonly used Ulster-Scots spelling.)
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Recorded.
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Water.
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Forward.
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Talk.
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Gardner, P. (2020). Ethnic Neoliberalism and the Colonial Narrative. In: Ethnic Dignity and the Ulster-Scots Movement in Northern Ireland. Palgrave Politics of Identity and Citizenship Series. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34859-5_6
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