The Irish Diaspora [Hardcover]

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.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 alÓo