The Irish Diaspora / Edition 1

by Andrew Bielenberg

Overview

This book brings together a series of articles which provide an overview of the Irish Diaspora from a global perspective. It combines a series of survey articles on the major destinations of the Diaspora; the USA, Britian and the British Empire. On each of these, there is a number of more specialist articles by historians, demographers, economists, sociologists and geographers. The inter-disciplinary approach of the book, with a strong historical and modern focus, provides the first comprehensive survey of the topic.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138835818
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/27/2015
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	376
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Andrew Bielenberg

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Vll
Introduction 1
Piaras Mac Einri
Part One: Great Britain 17
Chapter 1 The Irish in Britain, 1815-1939 19
Graham Davis
Chapter 2 Revising the Irish in Scotland: The Irish in
Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Scotland 37
Richard B. McCready
Chapter 3 Emigration from Ireland to Britain During the
Second World War 51
Tracey Connolly
Chapter 4 From 'Ethnicity' to 'Diaspora': 1980s Emigration and
'Multicultural' London 65
Breda Gray
Chapter 5 Who are the Irish in Britain? Evidence from
Large-scale Surveys 89
Brendan Halpin
Part Two: The Americas 109
Chapter 6 Irish Migration to North America, 1800-1920 111
Donald Harman Akenson
Chapter 7 'Scotch-Irish', 'Black Irish' and 'Real Irish': Emigrants
and Identities in the Old South 139
Kerby A. Miller
Chapter 8 Searching for Missing Friends in the Boston Pilot
Newspaper, 1831-1863 158
Ruth-Ann M. Harris
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Chapter 9 Immigrants on the Land: A Comparative Study of
Irish Rural Settlement in Nineteenth-Century Minnesota
and New South Wales 176
Malcolm Campbell
Chapter 10 Irish Emigration to Argentina: A Different Model 195
Patrick McKenna
Part Three: The Empire 213
Chapter 11 Irish Emigration to the British Empire, 1700-1914 215
Andy Bielenberg
Chapter 12 The Irish and India: Imperialism, Nationalism and
Internationalism 235
Michael Holmes
Chapter 13 Odd Man Out: The South African Experience 251
Donal P. McCracken
Chapter 14 'The Desired Haven'? Impressions of New Zealand in
Letters to and from Ireland, 1840-1925 272
Angela McCarthy
Part Four: General Studies 285
Chapter 15 A Quantification of Irish Migration with Particular
Emphasis on the 1980s and 1990s 287
Damien Courtney
Chapter 16 Changing Attitudes to 'New Wave' Emigration?
Structuralism versus Voluntarism in the Study of
Irish Emigration 317
Jim Mac Laughlin
Chapter 17 Placing Postwar Irish Migration to Britain in a
Comparative European Perspective, 1945-1981 331
Enda Delaney
Index

Editorial Reviews

'the watchwords of this book are diversity, complexity, variety, and heterogeneity'.Irish Economic and Social History

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