The Irish in Victorian Britain : the local dimension / Roger Swift & Sheridan Gilley, editors
1999, First Edition. Dublin, Ireland : Four Courts Press. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Previous owner's inscription to front end paper. Remains well-preserved overall. Item #454960
ISBN: 1851824030
Physical description; 320 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 298-313) and index. Contents; A regional perspective: the Famine Irish in south Wales -- Irish immigrants in Cornwall: the Camborne experience, 1861-82 -- 'Sturdy Catholic emigrants': the Irish in early Victorian Birmingham -- Irish settlement in the north-east and north-west of England in the mid-nineteenth century -- Catholic education in Victorian Hull -- Mayhew's Irish: the Irish poor in mid nineteenth-century London -- Migration, 'community' or integration? Irish families in Victorian Stafford -- Class, creed and country: the Irish middle class in Victorian Liverpool -- Nationalists in exile: the National Brotherhood of St Patrick in Lancashire, 1861-5 -- Alternative historiographies of the Irish in Britain: a critique of the segregation/assimilation model -- The Gaelic revival in London, 1900-22: limits of ethnic identity -- From Victorian 'Little Ireland' to heritage trail: catholicism, community and change in Liverpool's docklands. Subjects; 1800-1899. Irish Great Britain History 19th century. Emigration and immigration. Irish. Irish Great Britain History.
Price: €150.00