Full Description
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 the role of transatlantic political networks in developing and maintaining a sense of diaspora, all within the overarching theme of the role of networks. This volume represents a pioneering study that contributes to wider debates in the history of global migration, the first of its kind for any ethnic group, with conclusions of relevance far beyond the history of Irish migration and settlement. It is also expected that the volume will have resonance for scholars working in parallel fields, not least those studying different ethnic groups, and the editors contextualise the volume with this in mind in their introductory essay.
This book was previously published as a special issue of Immigrants and Minorities.
Contents
Irish Migration, Networks and Ethnic Identities Since 1750: An Introduction, 1. 'Women of the Wild Geese': Irish Women, Exile and Identity in Spain, 1750-1775, 2. Metropole and Colony: Irish Networks and Patronage in the Eighteenth-Century Empire, 3. 'We are Irish Everywhere': Irish Immigrant Networks in Charieston, South Carolina, and Savannah, Georgia, 4. Priests, Publicans and the Irish Poor: Ethnic Enterprise and Migrant Networks in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Liverpool, 5. 'Operating in the Ethnic Sphere': Irish Migrant Networks and the Question of Respectability in Nineteenth-Century South Wales, 6. Networking Respectability: Class, Gender and Ethnicity among the Irish in South Wales, 1845-1914, 7. Exporting Brotherhood: Orangeism in South Australia, 8. Networks, Communication and the Irish Protestant Diaspora in Northern England, c.1860-1914, 9. 'Bands of Fellowship': The Role of Personal Relationships and Social Networks among Irish Migrants in New Zealand, 1861-1911, 10. Deconstructing Diasporas: Networks and Identities among the Irish in Buffalo and Toronto, 1870-1910, 11. Imagined Irish Communities: Networks of Social Communication of the Irish Diaspora in the United States and Britain in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries, 12. Transnationalism, Networks and Emigration from Post-War Ireland, Notes on Contributors, Index
