Life history and the Irish migrant experience in post-war England : myth, memory and emotional adaption / Barry Hazley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hazley, Barry, author.

Series:

Manchester University Press

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Irish--England--History.

Irish.

England--Emigration and immigration--History.

England.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (253 pages) : illustrations; digital file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2020.

System Details:

data file

Summary:

This text makes innovative use of migrant life histories to further understanding the role of memory in the production of migrant identities. Offering a fresh perspective on the post-war Irish experience in England, it develops 'Popular Memory Theory' to illuminate how migrants' 'recompose' the self in response to the emotional challenges of migration.

Contents:

Introduction: Myth, memory and emotional adaption: the Irish in post-war England and the 'composure' of migrant subjectivities

1. Narratives of exit: the public meanings of emigration and the shaping of emigrant selves in post-war Ireland, 1945-69

2. In-between places: liminality and the dis/composure of migrant femininities in the post-war English city

3. Lives in re/construction: myth, memory and masculinity in Irish men's narratives of work in the British construction industry

4. Falling away from the Church? Negotiating religious selfhoods in post-1945 England

5. Nothing but the same old story? Otherness, belonging and the processes of migrant memory

Conclusion: Myth, memory and minority history

Appendix: Interviews

Select bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781526128027

1526128020

9781526150554

1526150557

9781526128010

1526128012

OCLC:

1140386664