Life History and the Irish Migrant Experience in Post-War England - Myth, Memory and Emotional Adaption

This book makes innovative use of migrant life histories to further understanding the role of memory in the production of migrant identities. Offering a fresh perspective on the post-war Irish experience in England, it develops Popular Memory Theory to illuminate how migrants' 'recompose' the self in response to the emotional challenges migration

List of contents

Introduction: Myth, memory and emotional adaption: the Irish in post-war England and the 'composure' of migrant subjectivities
1 Narratives of exit: the public meanings of emigration and the shaping of emigrant selves in post-war Ireland, 1945-69
2 In-between places: liminality and the dis/composure of migrant femininities in the post-war English city
3 Lives in re/construction: myth, memory and masculinity in Irish men's narratives of work in the British construction industry
4 Falling away from the Church? Negotiating religious selfhoods in post-1945 England
5 Nothing but the same old story? Otherness, belonging and the processes of migrant memory
Conclusion: Myth, memory and minority history
Appendix: Interviews
Select bibliography
Index

About the author

Barry Hazley is Derby Fellow in the Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool and AHRC Research Fellow in History at the University of Manchester

Summary

This book makes innovative use of migrant life histories to further understanding the role of memory in the production of migrant identities. Offering a fresh perspective on the post-war Irish experience in England, it develops Popular Memory Theory to illuminate how migrants’ ‘recompose’ the self in response to the emotional challenges migration -- .

Product details

• Authors: Barry Hazley
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2020
• EAN: 9781526128003
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-2800-3
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Melland Schill Guidebooks (Per; Manchester University Press
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Zweite Hälfte 20. Jahrhundert (1950 bis 1999 n. Chr.), Europäische Geschichte, Oral History, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, Mündlich überlieferte Geschichte, Oral History, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, European History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, HISTORY / Europe / General, HISTORY / Social History, Migration, immigration & emigration, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Migration, immigration and emigration, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period)