The Irish diaspora /
Contributor(s): Bielenberg, Andy.
Publisher: Harlow, England ; New York : Longman, 2000Description: vi, 368 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0582369983 (alk. paper); 9780582369986:; 0582369975 (pbk. : alk. paper).Subject(s): Irish -- Great Britain -- History | Irish -- Commonwealth countries -- History | Irish Americans -- History | Irlandais -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire | Irlandais -- Pays du Commonwealth -- Histoire | Américains d'origine irlandaise -- Histoire | Ireland -- Emigration and immigration | Irlande -- Émigration et immigrationDDC classification: 941.0049162Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Standard Loan | ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection | 941.0049162 BIE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0045877 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Irish in Britain, 1815-1939 / Graham Davis -- Revising the Irish in Scotland: the Irish in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Scotland / Richard B. McCready -- Emigration from Ireland to Britain during the Second World War / Tracey Connolly -- From 'ethnicity' to 'diaspora': the 1980s emigration and 'multicultural' London / Breda Gray -- Who are the Irish in Britain? evidence from large-scale surveys / Brendan Halpin -- Irish migration to North America, 1800-1920 / Donald Harman Akenson -- 'Scotch-Irish', 'Black Irish' and 'Real Irish': emigrants and identities in the old South / Kerby A. Miller -- Searching for missing friends in the Boston Pilot newspaper, 1831-1863 / Ruth-Ann M. Harris -- Immigrants on the land: a comparative study of Irish rural settlement in nineteenth-century Minnesota and New South Wales / Malcolm Campbell -- Irish emigration to Argentina: a different model / Patrick McKenna -- Irish emigration to the British Empire, 1700-1914 / Andy Bielenberg -- The Irish and India: imperialism, nationalism and internationalism / Michael Holmes -- Odd man out: the South African experience / Donal P. McCracken -- 'The desired haven'? impressions of New Zealand in letters to and from Ireland, 1840-1925 / Angela McCarthy -- A quantification of Irish migration with particular emphasis on the 1980s and 1990s / Damien Courtney -- Changing attitudes to 'new wave' emigration? structuralism versus voluntarism in the study of Irish emigration / Jim Mac Laughlin -- Placing postwar Irish migration to Britain in a comparative European perspective, 1945-1981 / Enda Delaney.
Providing a comprehensive survey of the Irish Diaspora from a global perspective, this text contains a collection of articles by historians, demographers, economists, sociologists and geographers.