Location and dislocation in contemporary Irish society : emigration and Irish identities / edited by Jim Mac Laughlin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mac Laughlin, Jim.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Irish--Foreign countries.

Irish.

Ireland--Emigration and immigration--History.

Ireland.

Emigration and immigration.

History.

Physical Description:

ix, 354 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cork, Ireland : Cork University Press, 1997.

Contents:

Emigration and the construction of nationalist hegemony in Ireland : the historical background to 'new wave' Irish emigration / Jim Mac Laughlin

The blackbird calls in grief : colonialism, health and identity among Irish immigrants in Britain / Liam Greenslade

Contemporary Irish settlement in London : women's worlds, men's worlds / Bronwen Walter

Sitting on your politics : the Irish among the British and the women among the Irish / Marella Buckley

The new vanishing Irish : social characteristics of 'new wave' Irish emigration / Jim Mac Laughlin

The ex-Isle of Erin : emigration and Irish culture / Fintan O'Toole

The devaluation of 'nation' as 'home' and the de-politicisation of recent Irish emigration / Jim Mac Laughlin

Unmasking Irishness : Irish women, the Irish nation and the Irish diaspora / Breda Gray

Clandestine destinies : the informal economic sector and Irish immigrant incorporation / Mary P. Corcoran

Irish immigrants in the United States' racial system / Eithne Luibheid

Traditionalism and homelessness in contemporary Irish music / Kieran Keohane

Graduate emigrants : a 'new wave' in Irish emigration? / Ian Shuttleworth

Technical experience or social myth : Ireland and the international professional labour market / Gerard Hanlon.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

185918054X

1859180558

OCLC:

41580860