Depictions of the Irish in Frank Webb's The Garies and Their Friends and Frances E. W. Harper's Trial and Triumph.(authors)(Critical Essay)

From: MELUS | Date: March 22, 2001| Author: Engle, Anna | Copyright information

In the 1991 movie The Commitments, Jimmy, the manager of an aspiring Dublin soul band, convinces a band member skeptical of playing African American music that the band's class background makes them black. He argues: "The Irish are the Blacks of Europe. The Dubliners are the Blacks of Ireland. And the Northside Dubliners are the Blacks of Dublin. So say it once, say it loud: I'm Black and I'm proud." In his provocative remark, Jimmy equates low class position with blackness, collap...

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