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Paperback / softback. New. Recent studies of the experiences of Irish migrants in Victorian Britain have emphasized the significance of the themes of change, continuity, resistance and accommodation in the creation of a rich and diverse migrant culture within which a variety of Irish identities co-existed and sometimes competed. In contributing to this burgeoning historiography, this book explores and analyses the complexities surrounding the self-identity of the Irish in Victorian Britain, which differed not only from place to place and from one generation to another but which were also variously shaped by issues of class and gender, and politics and religion. Moreover, and given the tendency for Irish ethnicity to mutate, through a comparative study of the Irish in Britain and the United States, the book suggests that in order to preserve their Irishness, the Irish often had to change it. Written by some of the foremost scholars in the field, these original essays not only shed new light on the…
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Irish Identities in Victorian Britain Paperback - 2015
by Roger Swift (Editor); Sheridan Gilley (Editor)
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- Title Irish Identities in Victorian Britain
- Author Roger Swift (Editor); Sheridan Gilley (Editor)
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 232
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Routledge
- Date 2015
- ISBN 9781138868120 / 1138868124
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- Cultural Region: British
- Cultural Region: Ireland
- Dewey Decimal Code 941
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