Death in the Diaspora

Nicholas J. Evans is Lecturer in Diaspora History at the University of Hull. Angela McCarthy is Professor of Scottish and Irish History at the University of Otago, New Zealand. She is the editor of A Global Clan (2006) and author of Personal Narratives of Irish and Scottish Migration, 1921-65 (2007) and Scottishness and Irishness in New Zealand since 1840 (2011).

The volume is likely to be/prove of interest to those from a variety of backgrounds – not only scholars of death studies but also those interested in national and diasporic identities and historians of the British Empire, while it is equally approachable for genealogists and family historians. The collection of studies raises wider issues of what it means to be British and Irish today and provides a stepping stone for similar work exploring expressions of identity by different ethnic groups moving within and migrating into Britain.

• 1.Introduction: Death in the diaspora: British and Irish gravestones Nicholas J. Evans and Angela McCarthy2. Forgetting and remembering: Ulster Scots memorials in Ulster, North America and Australia Harold Mytum3. Imposing identity: Death markers to ‘English’ people in Barbados, 1627-1838 Nicholas J. Evans4. Looking for thistles in stone gardens: The cemeteries of Nova Scotia’s Scottish immigrantsLaurie Stanley-Blackwell and Michael Linkletter5. Scottish headstones in Ceylon in comparative perspective Angela McCarthy6. Irish memorialisation in South Australia, 1850-1899 Janine McEgan7. Memorialising the diasporic Cornish Philip Payton8. Documents in stone: Records of lives and deaths of Scots abroad and in Scotland John M. MacKenzie9. Conclusion Angela McCarthy and Nicholas J. Evans