Author : Breda Gray
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 20,81 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780415260015
Based on original research with Irish women both at home and in England, this book explores how questions of mobility and stasis are recast along gender, class, racial and generational lines.
Author : D. A. J. MacPherson
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 18,26 MB
Release : 2016-05-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 152611240X
Bringing together leading authorities on Irish women and migration, this book offers a significant reassessment of the place of women in the Irish diaspora. It compares Irish women across the globe over the last two centuries, setting this research in the context of recent theoretical developments in the study of diaspora. This collection demonstrates the important role played by women in the construction of Irish diasporic identities, assessing Irish women’s experience in Britain, Canada, New Zealand and the United States. This book develops a conversation between other locations of the Irish diaspora and the dominant story about the USA and, in the process, emphasises the complexity and heterogeneity of Irish diasporan locations and experiences. This interdisciplinary collection, featuring chapters by Breda Gray, Louise Ryan and Bronwen Walter, will appeal to scholars and students of the Irish diaspora and women’s migration.
Author : Bronwen Walter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 11,2 MB
Release : 2002-05-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 113480461X
Notions of diaspora are central to contemporary debates about 'race', ethnicity, identity and nationalism. Yet the Irish diaspora, one of the oldest and largest, is often excluded on the grounds of 'whiteness'. Outsiders Inside explores the themes of displacement and the meanings of home for these women and their descendants. Juxtaposing the visibility of Irish women in the United States with their marginalization in Britain, Bronwen Walter challenges linear notions of migration and assimilation by demonstrating that two forms of identification can be held simultaneously. In an age when the Northern Ireland peace process is rapidly changing global perceptions of Irishness, Outsiders Inside moves the empirical study of the Irish diaspora out of the 'ghetto' of Irish Studies and into the mainstream, challenging theorists and policy-makers to pay attention to the issue of white diversity.
Author : Sophie Cooper
Publisher : Studies in British and Irish Migration
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 33,64 MB
Release : 2022-02-28
Category :
ISBN : 9781474487092
Presents the experiences of two burgeoning cities and the Irish people that helped to establish what it is 'to be Irish' within them
Author : Dr Enda Delaney
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 30,98 MB
Release : 2007-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1136776656
This collection of essays demonstrates in vivid detail how a range of formal and informal networks shaped the Irish experience of emigration, settlement and the construction of ethnic identity in a variety of geographical contexts since 1750. It examines topics as diverse as the associational culture of the Orange Order in the nineteenth century to
Author : Tony Murray
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 13,76 MB
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1846318319
Examines the specific role that the metropolis plays in literary portrayals of Irish migrant experience as an arena for the performance of Irishness, as a catalyst in the transformations of Irishness and as an intrinsic component of second generation Irish identities.
Author : Matthew Barlow
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,41 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Collective memory
ISBN : 9780774834339
This vibrant biography of Griffintown, an inner-city Montreal neighbourhood, brings to life the history of Irish identity in the legendary enclave. As Irish immigration dwindled in the early twentieth century, Irish culture in the city became diasporic, reflecting an imagined homeland. Focusing on the power of memory to shape community, Matthew Barlow finds that, despite sociopolitical pressures and a declining population, the spirit of this ethnic quarter was nurtured by the men and women who grew up there. Today, as Griffintown attracts renewed interest from artists, scholars, and tourists, this textured analysis reveals how public memory defines our urban centres.
Author : Carolin Alfonso
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 49,4 MB
Release : 2004-07-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 113439036X
Examines the development of the concept of diaspora and new perspectives on global networks and local identities. Features case histories on the Caribbean, Irish, Irish-American, Armenian, African and Greek diasporas.
Author : D. A. J. MacPherson
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 32,66 MB
Release : 2016-05-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1526113562
Provides a transnational account of women's involvement in conservative political activism during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in Britain and Canada
Author : Catherine Nash
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 32,43 MB
Release : 2008-05-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780815631590
What does it mean to be of Irish descent? What does Irish descent stand for in Ireland? In Northern Ireland? In the United States? How are the categories of “native” and “settler” and accounts of ethnic origin being refigured through popular genealogy and population genetics? Of Irish Descent addresses these questions by exploring the contemporary significance of ideas about ancestral roots, origins, and connections. Moving from the intimacy of family stories and reunions to disputed state policies on noble titles and new applications of genetic research, Nash traces the place of ancestry in interconnected geographies of identity—familial, ethnic, national, and diasporic. Underlying these different practices and narratives are potent and profoundly political questions about who counts as Irish and to whom Ireland belongs. Examining tensions between ideas of plurality and commonality, difference and connection that run through the culture and science of ancestral origins, Of Irish Descent is an original and timely exploration of new configurations of nation and diaspora as communities of shared descent.
