Irish Migrants in New Communities

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.

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.

• 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