The Irish in Manchester c.1750-1921 : resistance, adaptation and identity / Mervyn Busteed.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Busteed, M. A. (Mervyn Austen), 1944- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Irish--England--Manchester--History.

Irish.

Industrial revolution--England--Manchester--History.

Industrial revolution.

History.

Manchester (England)--Ethnic relations--History.

Manchester (England).

England--Manchester.

Physical Description:

x, 286 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2016.

Summary:

The book examines the ways in which Irish immigrants to nineteenth-century Manchester managed to preserve and express their distinctive identity in the first British city to undergo the industrial revolution. Using extensive archival sources the book analyses how historic anti-Irish prejudice was renewed by making the Irish the scapegoats for the ills of urban industrial development and the strategies they devised to cope with and alien and hostile situation. It explores that extent and preservation of residential segregation in one strongly Irish district and the significance of the Catholic Church as a source of spiritual comfort and the base for local organizations. The book investigates the ways in which the Irish sought to use the organisations and institutions which emerged the city for their own distinctively Irish purposes, forming sometimes troubled alliances with local campaign groups such as trade unions, Chartists and the Liberal Party. It also considers the contribution that elected Irish public representatives made to the wider civic life of the city as well as to their own community. There is detailed discussion of how the Irish utilised local traditions to preserve and perform their identity in public events and how the ownership of such occasions was contested between groups with differing definitions of the nature of Irish identity. In particular the relationship between moderate nationalism and an increasingly assertive separatist tradition is traced, culminating in an open military campaign in the city in the years 1920-21. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of Irish studies and history and British urban studies. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Early connections, 'Little Ireland' and stereotypes 7

2 Famine influx and residential clustering: Angel Meadow 41

3 The Catholic Church 75

4 St Patrick's Day: evolution of a celebration 118

5 Revolution and reform: 1790s to 1850s 145

6 Elections and meetings: 1870-1921 172

7 Fenians, martyrs and memories 206

8 Decline, revival and rising 248.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780719087196

0719087198

OCLC:

907131516

Publisher Number:

40025793091