This book brings together a series of articles which provide an overview of the Irish Diaspora from a global perspective. It combines a series of survey articles on the major destinations of the Diaspora; the USA, Britian and the British Empire. On each of these, there is a number of more specialist articles by historians, demographers, economists, sociologists and geographers. The inter-disciplinary approach of the book, with a strong historical and modern focus, provides the first comprehensive survey of the topic.
Acknowledgements Vll Introduction 1 Piaras Mac Einri Part One: Great Britain 17 Chapter 1 The Irish in Britain, 1815-1939 19 Graham Davis Chapter 2 Revising the Irish in Scotland: The Irish in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Scotland 37 Richard B. McCready Chapter 3 Emigration from Ireland to Britain During the Second World War 51 Tracey Connolly Chapter 4 From 'Ethnicity' to 'Diaspora': 1980s Emigration and 'Multicultural' London 65 Breda Gray Chapter 5 Who are the Irish in Britain? Evidence from Large-scale Surveys 89 Brendan Halpin Part Two: The Americas 109 Chapter 6 Irish Migration to North America, 1800-1920 111 Donald Harman Akenson Chapter 7 'Scotch-Irish', 'Black Irish' and 'Real Irish': Emigrants and Identities in the Old South 139 Kerby A. Miller Chapter 8 Searching for Missing Friends in the Boston Pilot Newspaper, 1831-1863 158 Ruth-Ann M. Harris vi Contents Chapter 9 Immigrants on the Land: A Comparative Study of Irish Rural Settlement in Nineteenth-Century Minnesota and New South Wales 176 Malcolm Campbell Chapter 10 Irish Emigration to Argentina: A Different Model 195 Patrick McKenna Part Three: The Empire 213 Chapter 11 Irish Emigration to the British Empire, 1700-1914 215 Andy Bielenberg Chapter 12 The Irish and India: Imperialism, Nationalism and Internationalism 235 Michael Holmes Chapter 13 Odd Man Out: The South African Experience 251 Donal P. McCracken Chapter 14 'The Desired Haven'? Impressions of New Zealand in Letters to and from Ireland, 1840-1925 272 Angela McCarthy Part Four: General Studies 285 Chapter 15 A Quantification of Irish Migration with Particular Emphasis on the 1980s and 1990s 287 Damien Courtney Chapter 16 Changing Attitudes to 'New Wave' Emigration? Structuralism versus Voluntarism in the Study of Irish Emigration 317 Jim Mac Laughlin Chapter 17 Placing Postwar Irish Migration to Britain in a Comparative European Perspective, 1945-1981 331 Enda Delaney Index
