Irish Migrants in New Communities - Seeking the Fair Land?

Informationen zum Autor Máirtín Ó Catháin is lecturer in history at the School of Education and Social Science, University of Central Lancashire. Mícheál Ó hAodha is visiting lecturer in the Department of History, University of Limerick. Klappentext Irish Migrants in New Communities: Seeking the Fair Land? examines the interactions of Irish migrants and the new societies and experiences that opened up to them through the process of emigration and exile. The contributors' chapters focus on oral history perspectives to examine the adaptation of the migrants to these new environments and cultures and to chronicle the experience of "Irishness" outside of Ireland itself. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part 1: Fitting in Chapter 1- Tribal Kings and Tattooed Chiefs: The Hidden Irish of the Pacific World Malcolm Campbell Chapter 2- Legends of the Graceville Conamaras Bridget Connelly Chapter 3- 'Je ne suis jamais allé en Irlande': An Irish Journey to La Beauce, Quebec Noémie Beck and Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin Chapter 4- 'Nobody's baby': Forgotten Irish nationals in post-independence India Kate O'Malley Chapter 5- Sisters in the field: The courageous journey of the pioneering Loreto sisters to India and Canada Tara Manning Chapter 6- Irish Soldiers in the American Civil War Patricia B. Swan and James B. Swan Part 2: Shaping up Chapter 7- The Irish Wellspring Jay Tunney Chapter 8- 'From Poverty to Posterity': Assisted Emigration from Connemara in the 1880s Gerard Moran Chapter 9- Michael Mooney and the Leadville Miners' Strike of 1880 James Patrick Walsh Chapter 10- 'I Wish I Was Back Home in Derry': Songs Composed in the H Blocks and the Paradox of Exile Lachlan Whalen

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• Authors: Micheal O Cathain O Haodha
• Assisted by: Máirtín Ó Catháin (Editor), Mícheál Ó hAodha (Editor), Mairtin O Cathain (Editor), Máirtín Ó Catháin (Editor), Micheal O hAodha (Editor), Mícheál Ó Haodha (Editor), Mairtin O. Cathain (Editor), Micheal O. Haodha (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.05.2014
• EAN: 9780739173824
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-7382-4
• No. of pages: 172
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Demography, Social groups, Ireland, Migration, immigration & emigration, Migration, immigration and emigration, Human Geography, Population and migration geography, Social groups, communities and identities, Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples, European Studies;Irish Emigration