The first critical survey of an unjustly neglected body of literature: the autobiographies and memoirs of writers of Irish birth or background who lived and worked in Britain between 1725 and the present day. It offers a stimulating and provocative introduction to the themes, preoccupations and narrative strategies of a diverse range of writers.Acknowledgements Map Introduction: Migration and Autobiographical Authorship Editorial Note Mary Davys, The Merry Wanderer (1725) Laetitia Pilkington, Memoirs of Laetitia Pilkington, Wife to the Reverend Mr Matthew Pilkington, Written by Herself (1748) John Binns, Recollections of the Life of John Binns: twenty-nine years in Europe and fifty-three in the United States (1854) John O'Neil, 'Fifty Years' Experience of an Irish Shoemaker in London' (1869) Michael Fagg, Life and Adventures of a Limb of the Law (1836) James Dawson Burn, The Autobiography of a Beggar Boy (1855) Jane Jowitt, Memoirs of Jane Jowitt, the Poor Poetess, Aged 74 Years, Written by Herself (1844) J. E., 'Life of an Irish Tailor, Written by Himself' (1857) Robert Crowe, The Reminiscences of Robert Crowe, the Octogenerian Tailor (1902) William Hammond, Recollections of William Hammond, A Glasgow Hand-Loom Weaver (1904) Ellen O'Neill, Extraordinary Confessions of a Female Pickpocket (1850) Owen Peter Mangan, 'Memoir' (1912) Justin McCarthy, The Story of an Irishman (1904) Jim Blake, Jim Blake's Tour from Clonave to London (1867) Frances Power Cobbe, The Life of Frances Power Cobbe by Herself (1894) John Denvir, The Life Story of an Old Rebel (1910) Tom Barclay, Memoirs and Medleys: The Autobiography of a Bottle-Washer (1934) William Butler Yeats, Reveries over Childhood and Youth (1916) Joseph Keating, My Struggle for Life (1916) James Mullin, The Story of a Toiler's Life (1921) Michael MacGowan, The Hard Road to Klondyke (1962) Francis Fahy, 'Ireland in London Reminiscences' (1921) John Sweeney, At Scotland Yard: Being the Experiences during Twenty-Seven YelÓ%
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