Irish, Catholic and scouse : the history of the Liverpool-Irish, 1800-1939 / John Belchem.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Belchem, John.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Irish--England--Liverpool--History--19th century.

Irish.

Irish--England--Liverpool--History--20th century.

Catholics--England--Liverpool.

Catholics.

Liverpool (England)--Social conditions--19th century.

Liverpool (England).

Liverpool (England)--Social conditions--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 364 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Irish, Catholic and Scouse highlights the complex interplay of cultural and structural factors experienced by the most significant ethnic group in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century pre-multicultural Britain: the Irish in Liverpool. Drawing upon new approaches to our understanding of diasporas, this study emphasises the role of ethnic agency as Catholic migrants and their descendants made Irishness their own. Belchem looks in detail at those who remained in Liverpool, the hub of the Irish diaspora, and contrasts them with their compatriots who continued on their trans-national travels. This path-breaking study will be required reading for those who wish to understand the Irish diaspora and the cultural melting pot of nineteenth-century Liverpool.

Contents:

Introduction: 'A piece cut off from the old sod itself'

Part 1. 1800-1914

1. Poor paddy: the Irish in the Liverpool Labour Market

2. 'The lowest depth': the spatial dimensions of Irish Liverpool

3. The holy sanctity of poverty: welfare, charity and the sacred Irish poor

4. Faith and fatherland: ethno-sectarian collective mutuality

5. Electoral politics: towards home rule

6. Extra-parliamentary politics: the American connection

7. 'Pat-riot-ism': sectarian violence and public disorder

8. Cultural politics: national regeneration and ethnic revival

9. Leisure: Irish recreation

Part 2. 1914-39

10. The First World War: free citizens of a free empire?

11. The Liverpool-Irish and the Irish revolution

12. Depression, decline and heritage recovery.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-78138-679-X

1-84631-336-8

OCLC:

476209336