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Demography, State and SocietyIrish Migration to Britain, 1921-1971 |
A bold examination of the Irish exodus to Britain in the twentieth century.
The process of migration is associated with longing, homesickness, the shock of exposure to a new culture, and, sometimes, escape and freedom. Between the foundation of the new Irish state in 1921-22 and the early 1970s approximately one and one-half million people left independent Ireland, the vast majority travelling to Britain. Demography, State and Society is the first comprehensive analysis of this exodus. Meticulously researched, using an exhaustive range of previously unused source materials, it provides a detailed examination of the many ways in which migration shaped twentieth-century Irish society.
Enda Delaney argues that migration to Britain was qualitatively different from that to North America and that transience was the overriding characteristic of Irish migrant experience in the twentieth century. He provides an analysis of reasons for large-scale migration, in the process answering the important question of why so many people left Ireland.
Demography, State and Society focuses on a number of vital themes, many rarely mentioned in previous studies: state policy in Ireland, official responses to migration in Britain, gender dimensions, individual migrant experience, patterns of settlement in Britain, and the crucial phenomenon of return migration. It offers much that will be of interest to scholars, students, and general readers in Irish migration as well as those in the wider fields of modern British and Irish history and migration studies.
Enda Delaney argues that migration to Britain was qualitatively different from that to North America and that transience was the overriding characteristic of Irish migrant experience in the twentieth century. He provides an analysis of reasons for large-scale migration, in the process answering the important question of why so many people left Ireland.
Demography, State and Society focuses on a number of vital themes, many rarely mentioned in previous studies: state policy in Ireland, official responses to migration in Britain, gender dimensions, individual migrant experience, patterns of settlement in Britain, and the crucial phenomenon of return migration. It offers much that will be of interest to scholars, students, and general readers in Irish migration as well as those in the wider fields of modern British and Irish history and migration studies.
Details
Part of the McGill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History Series (number 2.09 in series)
352 Pages
ISBN 9780773522138
November 2000
Formats: Paperback
"This is one of the most significant works to date of the history of Irish migration in any period or place. It fills a yawning gap in the historiography with a lucid, intelligent and wide-ranging analysis of some of the most important but little-studied aspects of one of Europe's most important population movements." Donald M. MacRaild, University of Northumbria at Newcastle
"This substantive study of Irish migration to Britain during the middle decades of the twentieth century succeeds in filling an important gap in the Irish experience (...) Delaney has produced an indispensable contribution to the ongoing debate in Irish diaspora studies." History
"Exhaustive, well written, thoroughly researched, and wider-ranging than might be inferred from the title." International History Review
"This is excellent comparative British and Irish history as well as a major contribution to migration studies. The depth of scholarship and the range of sources make this quite the best book on the subject: it is certainly the best history of Irish migration to twentieth-century Britain." Irish Studies Review
"A sophisticated analysis...likely to remain the standard work in the field for years to come." Twentieth Century British History
"An elegantly written and engaging historical overview, which makes an excellent contribution to the growing scholarship on the Irish diaspora." International Migration Review
"Not only is it essential reading for the specialist, but it will be of interest to anyone with a general regard for Irish history." Irish Economic and Social History
"A scholarly and timely study of the great wave of emigration from Ireland during the first fifty years after independence." Irish Political Studies
"A valuable addition to the literature on Irish emigration." Journal of Interdisciplinary History
"This splendid book is essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand the phenomenon of Irish migration to Britain since the birth of the Irish Free State in 1921...This book is recommended, unreservedly, to all interested in Irish emigration history." Labour/Le Travail
"This substantive study of Irish migration to Britain during the middle decades of the twentieth century succeeds in filling an important gap in the Irish experience (...) Delaney has produced an indispensable contribution to the ongoing debate in Irish diaspora studies." History
"Exhaustive, well written, thoroughly researched, and wider-ranging than might be inferred from the title." International History Review
"This is excellent comparative British and Irish history as well as a major contribution to migration studies. The depth of scholarship and the range of sources make this quite the best book on the subject: it is certainly the best history of Irish migration to twentieth-century Britain." Irish Studies Review
"A sophisticated analysis...likely to remain the standard work in the field for years to come." Twentieth Century British History
"An elegantly written and engaging historical overview, which makes an excellent contribution to the growing scholarship on the Irish diaspora." International Migration Review
"Not only is it essential reading for the specialist, but it will be of interest to anyone with a general regard for Irish history." Irish Economic and Social History
"A scholarly and timely study of the great wave of emigration from Ireland during the first fifty years after independence." Irish Political Studies
"A valuable addition to the literature on Irish emigration." Journal of Interdisciplinary History
"This splendid book is essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand the phenomenon of Irish migration to Britain since the birth of the Irish Free State in 1921...This book is recommended, unreservedly, to all interested in Irish emigration history." Labour/Le Travail
Enda Delaney is Reader in Modern History at the University of Edinburgh.
