Irish Identities In Victorian Britain

Author : Roger Swift,Sheridan Gilley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317965565

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Irish Identities in Victorian Britain by Roger Swift,Sheridan Gilley Pdf

Recent studies of the experiences of Irish migrants in Victorian Britain have emphasized the significance of the themes of change, continuity, resistance and accommodation in the creation of a rich and diverse migrant culture within which a variety of Irish identities co-existed and sometimes competed. In contributing to this burgeoning historiography, this book explores and analyses the complexities surrounding the self-identity of the Irish in Victorian Britain, which differed not only from place to place and from one generation to another but which were also variously shaped by issues of class and gender, and politics and religion. Moreover, and given the tendency for Irish ethnicity to mutate, through a comparative study of the Irish in Britain and the United States, the book suggests that in order to preserve their Irishness, the Irish often had to change it. Written by some of the foremost scholars in the field, these original essays not only shed new light on the history of the Irish in Britain but are also integral to the broader study of the Irish Diaspora and of immigrants and minorities in multicultural societies. This book was previously published as a special issue of Immigrants and Minorities.

Author : Roger Swift,Sheridan Gilley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015048529237

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The Irish in Victorian Britain by Roger Swift,Sheridan Gilley Pdf

This book illustrates the diversity of the Irish experience by reference to studies of specific towns and regions which have hitherto received little attention from historians of the Irish in Britain during the Victorian period.

Author : Roger Swift,Sheridan Gilley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317240358

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The Irish in the Victorian City by Roger Swift,Sheridan Gilley Pdf

First published in 1985, this book explores the social history of the Irish in Britain across a variety of cities, including Bristol, York, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Stockport. With contributions from foremost scholars in the field, it provides a thorough critical study of Irish immigration, in its social, political, cultural and religious dimensions. This book will be of interested to students of Victorian history, Irish history and the history of minorities.

Author : Roger Swift,Sheridan Gilley
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : 0389208884

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The Irish in Britain, 1815-1939 by Roger Swift,Sheridan Gilley Pdf

This work is a sequel to The Irish Victorian City. As a collection of national and regional studies, it reflected the consensus view of the subject by describing both the degree of the demoralization of the Irish immigrants into Britain for the early and mid-Victorian period, when they figured so largely in the official parliamentary and social reportage of the day; and then, in spite of every obvious difficulty posed by poverty, crime, disease, and prejudice, the positive aspect of the Irish Catholic achievement in the creation of enduring religious and political communities towards the end of the nineteenth century.

Author : David A. Valone,Jill Marie Bradbury
Publisher : Associated University Presse
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 0838757138

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Anglo-Irish Identities, 1571-1845 by David A. Valone,Jill Marie Bradbury Pdf

This book presents a series of essays that examine the ideological, personal, and political difficulties faced by the group variously termed the Anglo-Irish, the Protestant Ascendancy, or the English in Ireland, a group that existed in a world of contested ideological, political, and cultural identities. At the root of this conflicted sense of self was an acute awareness among the Anglo-Irish of their liminal position as colonial dominators in Ireland who were viewed as other both by the Catholic natives of Ireland and by their English kinsmen. The work in this volume is highly interdisciplinary, bringing to bear examination of issues that are historical, literary, economic, and sociological. Contributors investigate how individuals experienced the ambiguities and conflicts of identity formation in a colonial society, how writers fought the economic and ideological superiority of the English, how the cooption of Gaelic history and culture was a political strategy for the Anglo-Irish, and how literary texts contributed to the emergence of national consciousness. In seeking to understand and trace the complex process of identity formation in early modern Ireland the essays in this volume attest to its tenuous, dynamic, and necessarily incomplete nature. David A. Valone is an Assistant Professor of History at Quinnipiac University. Jill Marie Bradbury is an Assistant Professor of English at Gallaudet University.

Author : G. Vaughan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137329844

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The 'Local' Irish in the West of Scotland 1851-1921 by G. Vaughan Pdf

Vaughan renews perspectives on the changes brought about by Irish migrant communities in terms of identity, politics and religion. The book examines on the experience of generations of Irish migrants in the West of Scotland from the aftermath of the Great Famine until the creation of the Republic of Ireland.

Author : Paul Colman Mulkern
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89099930216

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Irish Immigrants and Public Disorder in Mid-Victorian Britain, 1830-80 by Paul Colman Mulkern Pdf

Author : Peter Gray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015061158203

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Victoria's Ireland? by Peter Gray Pdf

This collection of interdisciplinary essays focuses on the articulation and interplay of 'Irish' and 'British' identities during the Victorian period in Ireland, Great Britain and beyond. To some commentators inherently antagonistic, to others potentially complementary, 'Irishness' and 'Britishness' were described and contested with increasing intensity throughout the long period of Victoria's reign. These essays utilize a range of themes to throw light on the complexities of that relationship, including the Victorian monarchy's attitude towards Ireland and Irish reactions to it, debates about Irish difference and integration, and varied constructions of Ireland's place in the imperial world order. It gives particular attention to the Famine as a rupturing force in Victorian Irish-British relations and to attempts made to contain this cleavage in literature, economic theory and policy.

Author : Louise Miskell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317097990

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Meeting Places: Scientific Congresses and Urban Identity in Victorian Britain by Louise Miskell Pdf

The promotion of knowledge was a major preoccupation of the Victorian era and, beginning in 1831 with the establishment of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, a number of national bodies were founded which used annual, week-long meetings held each year in a different town or city as their main tool of knowledge dissemination. Historians have long recognised the power of 'cultural capital' in the competitive climate of the mid-Victorian years, as towns raced to equip themselves with libraries, newspapers, 'Lit. and Phil.' societies and reading rooms, but the staging of the great annual knowledge festivals of the period have not previously been considered in this context. The four national associations studied are the British Association for the Advancement of Science (BAAS), the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (NAPSS), the Royal Archaeological Institute (RAI) and the Royal Agricultural Society of England (RASE), who held annual meetings in 62 different provincial towns and cities from 1831 to 1884. In this book it is contended that these meetings were as important as royal visits and major civic ceremonies in providing towns with an opportunity to promote their own status and identity. By deploying a wealth of primary source material, much of which has not been previously utilised by urban historians, this book offers a new and genuinely Britain-wide perspective on a period when comparison and competition with neighbouring places was a constant preoccupation of town leaders.

Author : Carmen M. Mangion,Susan O'Brien
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780192587541

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The Oxford History of British and Irish Catholicism, Volume IV by Carmen M. Mangion,Susan O'Brien Pdf

After 1830 Catholicism in Britain and Ireland was practised and experienced within an increasingly secure Church that was able to build a national presence and public identity. With the passage of the Catholic Relief Act (Catholic Emancipation) in 1829 came civil rights for the United Kingdom's Catholics, which in turn gave Catholic organisations the opportunity to carve out a place in civil society within Britain and its empire. This Catholic revival saw both a strengthening of central authority structures in Rome, (creating a more unified transnational spiritual empire with the person of the Pope as its centre), and a reinvigoration at the local and popular level through intensified sacramental, devotional, and communal practices. After the 1840s, Catholics in Britain and Ireland not only had much in common as a consequence of the Church's global drive for renewal, but the development of a shared Catholic culture across the two islands was deepened by the large-scale migration from Ireland to many parts of Britain following the Great Famine of 1845. Yet at the same time as this push towards a degree of unity and uniformity occurred, there were forces which powerfully differentiated Catholicism on either side of the Irish Sea. Four very different religious configurations of religious majorities and minorities had evolved since the sixteenth-century Reformation in England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. Each had its own dynamic of faith and national identity and Catholicism had played a vital role in all of them, either as 'other' or, (in the case of Ireland), as the majority's 'self'. Identities of religion, nation, and empire, and the intersection between them, lie at the heart of this volume. They are unpacked in detail in thematic chapters which explore the shared Catholic identity that was built between 1830 and 1913 and the ways in which that identity was differentiated by social class, gender and, above all, nation. Taken together, these chapters show how Catholicism was integral to the history of the United Kingdom in this period.

Author : Eugenio F. Biagini,Mary E. Daly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 651 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107095588

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The Cambridge Social History of Modern Ireland by Eugenio F. Biagini,Mary E. Daly Pdf

This is the first textbook on the history of modern Ireland to adopt a social history perspective. Written by an international team of leading scholars, it draws on a wide range of disciplinary approaches and consistently sets Irish developments in a wider European and global context.

Author : M. Morgan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2001-01-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230512153

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National Identities and Travel in Victorian Britain by M. Morgan Pdf

This book explores components of national identity in Victorian Britain by analyzing travel literature. It draws on published and unpublished travel journals by middle-class men and women from England, Scotland, and Wales who toured the Continent and/or Britain. The main aim is to illustrate both the contexts that inspired the various collective identities of Britishness, Englishness, Scotsness, and Welshness, as well as the qualities Victorian men and women had in mind when they used such terms to identify and imagine themselves collectively.

Author : Donald M. MacRaild
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0853236623

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Culture, Conflict, and Migration by Donald M. MacRaild Pdf

A major study of Catholic and Protestant Irish in an important but neglected center of historic Irish settlement where communal violence and Irish-related antipathy bore the hallmarks of the Liverpool and Glasgow experiences. "Culture, Conflict and Migration... deserves to be read as an important contribution to the growing literature on the Irish in Britain."Irish Studies Review

Author : Steven Fielding
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Catholics
ISBN : UOM:39015029528307

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Class and Ethnicity by Steven Fielding Pdf

Fielding (politics and history, U. of Salford) challenges the assumption that the growing class consciousness of British workers in the late 19th and early 20th century subsumed the ethnic identity of Irish Catholics living and working in England. He focuses on Manchester's large Irish Catholic population to show how that persevering identity caused conflicts within the labor movement. Distributed in the US by Taylor and Francis. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Michael de Nie
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2004-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0299186644

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The Eternal Paddy by Michael de Nie Pdf

All about Skin features twenty-seven stories by women writers of color whose short fiction has earned them a range of honors, including John Simon Guggenheim Fellowships, the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, the Flannery O'Connor Award, and inclusion in the Best American Short Stories and O. Henry anthologies.The prose in this multicultural anthology addresses such themes as racial prejudice, media portrayal of beauty, and family relationships and spans genres from the comic and the surreal to startling realism. It demonstrates the power and range of some of the most exciting women writing short fiction today. The stories are by American writers Aracelis Gonzalez Asendorf, Jacqueline Bishop, Glendaliz Camacho, Learkana Chong, Jennine Capo Crucet, Ramola D., Patricia Engel, Amina Gautier, Manjula Menon, ZZ Packer, Princess Joy L. Perry, Toni Margarita Plummer, Emily Raboteau, Ivelisse Rodriguez, Metta Sama, Joshunda Sanders, Renee Simms, Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, Hope Wabuke, and Ashley Young; Nigerian writers Unoma Azuah and Chinelo Okparanta; and Chinese writer Xu Xi. Best Books for General Audiences, selected by the American Association of School Librarians Best Books for General Audiences, selected by the Public Library Reviewers "