Irish Migrants in New Communities

Seeking the Fair Land?

Inbunden, Engelska, 2014

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Beskrivning

Irish migrants in new communities: Seeking the Fair Land? comprises the second collection of essays by these editors exploring fresh aspects and perspectives on the subject of the Irish diaspora. This volume, edited by Máirtín Ó Catháin and Mícheál Ó hAodha, develops many of the oral history themes of the first book and concentrates more on issues surrounding the adaptation of migrants to new or host environments and cultures. These new places often have a jarring effect, as well as a welcoming air, and the Irish bring their own interpretations, hostilities, and suspicions, all of which are explored in a fascinating and original number of new perspectives.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2014-05-16
Mått:161 x 236 x 18 mm
Vikt:381 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:172
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9780739173824

Utforska kategorier

Migration inom Samhälle och politik
Sociala grupper och identitet inom Samhälle och politik
Geografi inom Naturvetenskap och teknik

Mer om författaren

Máirtín Ó Catháin is lecturer in history at the School of Education and Social Science, University of Central Lancashire.Mícheál Ó hAodha is visiting lecturer in the Department of History, University of Limerick.

Recensioner i media

Máirtín Ó Catháin and Mícheál Ó hAodha's Irish Migrants in New Communities: Seeking the Fair Land? is an eclectic collection of fascinating essays on a varied and sometimes motley crew of Irish emigrants, castaways, missionaries, and external and internal 'exiles,' ranging from Terence Connell, 'King of the Horrifories' in New Guinea, to Irish-American labor leader Michael Mooney, nearly lynched by Colorado's right-wing vigilantes, to Bobby Sands in his lesser-known role as Long Kesh guitarist and song-writer. This is a book of stories about people sometimes forgotten by their own descendants, and often betrayed and traduced by History's 'winners,' but now recovered to edify a new generation of Irishmen and -women who are forced once more, by their economic and political overlords, to 'seek the fair land' outside Ireland.

Innehållsförteckning

Part 1: Fitting inChapter 1- Tribal Kings and Tattooed Chiefs: The Hidden Irish of the Pacific World Malcolm CampbellChapter 2- Legends of the Graceville ConamarasBridget ConnellyChapter 3- ‘Je ne suis jamais allé en Irlande’: An Irish Journey to La Beauce, Quebec Noémie Beck and Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráinChapter 4- ‘Nobody’s baby’: Forgotten Irish nationals in post-independence India Kate O’MalleyChapter 5- Sisters in the field: The courageous journey of the pioneering Loreto sisters to India and CanadaTara ManningChapter 6- Irish Soldiers in the American Civil War Patricia B. Swan and James B. SwanPart 2: Shaping upChapter 7- The Irish Wellspring Jay TunneyChapter 8- ‘From Poverty to Posterity’: Assisted Emigration from Connemara in the 1880s Gerard MoranChapter 9- Michael Mooney and the Leadville Miners’ Strike of 1880 James Patrick Walsh Chapter 10- ‘I Wish I Was Back Home in Derry’: Songs Composed in the H Blocks and the Paradox of ExileLachlan Whalen