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Irish migrants in modern Britain, 1750-1922 / Donald M. MacRaild.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- MacRaild, Donald M.
- Series:
- Social history in perspective
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Irish--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Irish.
- Irish--Great Britain--History--18th century.
- Irish--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Immigrants.
- History.
- Great Britain--Emigration and immigration.
- Great Britain.
- Emigration and immigration.
- Ireland--Emigration and immigration.
- Ireland.
- Immigrants--Great Britain--History.
- Physical Description:
- x, 230 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : St. Martin's Press, 1999.
- Summary:
- A lively, accessible study of the emergence and development of Irish communities in nineteenth-century Britain.
- Contents:
- 1 Economy, Poverty and Emigration 9
- Ireland before the Famine 13
- Population and Potatoes 15
- Land and Inequality 23
- The Limits of Industrial and Urban Growth 28
- The Great Famine, 1845-50 31
- Beyond the Famine 35
- 2 Concentration and Dispersal: Irish Labour Migration to Britain 42
- Itinerant Migration 44
- The Emergence of Permanent Settlements 48
- The Famine Emigration and its Aftermath 58
- Beyond the Famine: the Far North of England 65
- 3 Spiritual and Social Bonds: the Culture of Irish Catholicism 75
- Catholicism Renewed 77
- The Catholic Church and the Irish in Britain 81
- The Power of the Priest 86
- Associationalism and Social Catholicism 91
- 4 The Protestant Irish 100
- Patterns of Protestant Migration to Britain 103
- The Orange Order 109
- The Meaning and Scope of Orangeism 117
- 5 Politics, Labour and Participation 123
- The United Irishmen and the Jacobite Tradition 124
- Trade Unionism and Radicalism in the Age of Repeal and Reform 127
- Irish Migrants and Chartism 131
- 1848 136
- Fenianism 138
- Home Rule and Unionism 142
- Sinn Fein, World War I and the Formation of the Free State 150
- 6 A Culture of Anti-Irishness 155
- The 'Condition of England' 156
- The Question of Race 160
- Crime and Violence 162
- Workplace Tensions 165
- Anti-Catholicism 169
- Popular Protestantism and Orangeism 174
- Later Victorian Violence 178.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-209) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0312220324
- OCLC:
- 39787619
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