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This chapter explores the maintenance of Irish tradition through the twentieth century, with the preparation of food and the English language emerging as significant markers of self and group identity. It shows how the domestic sphere provided a unique avenue by which Irish women in Argentina became the keepers of tradition and devotes careful attention to how and why the English language was maintained in Irish-Argentine homes and communities.
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O’Brien, S. (2017). Eating Our Words: Food, Language and the Preservation of Identity. In: Linguistic Diasporas, Narrative and Performance. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51421-5_7
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