ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part One|91 pages
Great Britain
chapter Chapter 2|14 pages
Revising the Irish in Scotland: The Irish in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Scotland
chapter Chapter 4|24 pages
From 'Ethnicity' to 'Diaspora': 1980s Emigration and 'Multicultural' London
part Two|104 pages
The Americas
chapter Chapter 7|19 pages
'Scotch-Irish', 'Black Irish' and 'Real Irish': Emigrants and Identities in the Old South
part Three|72 pages
The Empire
chapter Chapter 14|13 pages
'The Desired Haven'? Impressions of New Zealand in Letters to and from Ireland, 1840–1925
part Four|72 pages
General Studies