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Migrations : Ireland in a global world
This edited collection explores Ireland's complex relationship with migration in novel and innovative ways. The contributors - leading scholars of migration from the disciplines of anthropology, geography, history, media studies, sociology, sociolinguistics and women's studies - draw on new research to provide insights into emigration from and immigration to Ireland, both past and present.
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Ulster to America
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Ulster to America: The Scots-Irish Migration Experience,
1680–1830 , editor Warren R. Hofstra has gathered
contributions from pioneering scholars who are rewriting the
history of the Scots-Irish. In addition to presenting fresh
information based on thorough and detailed research, they offer
cutting-edge interpretations that help explain the Scots-Irish
experience in the United States. In place of implacable
Scots-Irish individualism, the writers stress the urge to build
communities among Ulster immigrants. In place of rootlessness
and isolation, the authors point to the trans-Atlantic
continuity of Scots-Irish settlement and the presence of
Germans and Anglo-Americans in so-called Scots-Irish areas. In
a variety of ways, the book asserts, the Scots-Irish actually
modified or abandoned some of their own cultural traits as a
result of interacting with people of other backgrounds and in
response to many of the main themes defining American history.
While the Scots-Irish myth has proved useful over time to
various groups with their own agendas—including
modern-day conservatives and fundamentalist
Christians—this book, by clearing away long-standing but
erroneous ideas about the Scots-Irish, represents a major
advance in our understanding of these immigrants. It also
places Scots-Irish migration within the broader context of the
historiographical construct of the Atlantic world. Organized in
chronological and migratory order, this volume includes
contributions on specific U.S. centers for Ulster immigrants:
New Castle, Delaware; Donegal Springs, Pennsylvania; Carlisle,
Pennsylvania; Opequon, Virginia; the Virginia frontier; the
Carolina backcountry; southwestern Pennsylvania, and Kentucky.
Ulster to America is essential reading for scholars
and students of American history, immigration history, local
history, and the colonial era, as well as all those who seek a
fuller understanding of the Scots-Irish immigrant story.
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The Plantation of Ulster
The first major academic study of the Ulster Plantation in over 25 years. This collection of essays by leading scholars in the field on a broad range of historical and literary topics redresses the previous coverage of the plantations, moving away from an exclusive colonial perspective, to include the native Catholic experience.
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British and Irish diasporas : societies, cultures and ideologies
This volume offers the first integrated study of the formation of diasporas from the islands of Ireland and Britain, and explores how the examples and experiences of the constituent nations and peoples of those islands compare.
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The 'Mere Irish' and the Colonisation of Ulster, 1570-1641
This book examines the native Irish experience of conquest and colonisation in Ulster in the first decades of the seventeenth century. Central to this argument is that the Ulster plantation bears more comparisons to European expansion throughout the Atlantic than (as some historians have argued) the early-modern state's consolidation of control over its peripheral territories. Farrell also demonstrates that plantation Ulster did not see any significant attempt to transform the Irish culturally or economically in these years, notwithstanding the rhetoric of a 'civilising mission'. Challenging recent scholarship on the integrative aspects of plantation society, he argues that this emphasis obscures the antagonism which characterised relations between native and newcomer until the eve of the 1641 rising. This book is of interest not only to students of early-modern Ireland but is also a valuable contribution to the burgeoning field of Atlantic history and indeed colonial studies in general.
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The Invisible Irish
In spite of the many historical studies of Irish Protestant migration to America in the eighteenth century, there is a noted lack of study in the transatlantic migration of Irish Protestants in the nineteenth century. The main hindrance in rectifying this gap has been finding a method with which to approach a very difficult historiographical problem. The Invisible Irish endeavours to fill this blank spot in the historical record. Rankin Sherling imaginatively uses the various bits of available data to sketch the first outline of the shape of Irish Presbyterian migration to America in the nineteenth century. Using the migration of Irish Presbyterian ministers as \"tracers\" of a larger migration, Sherling demonstrates that eighteenth-century migration of Protestants reveals much about the completely unknown nineteenth-century migration. An original and creative blueprint of Irish Presbyterian migration in the nineteenth century, The Invisible Irish calls into question many of the assumptions that the history of Irish migration to America is built upon.In spite of the many historical studies of Irish Protestant migration to America in the eighteenth century, there is a noted lack of study in the transatlantic migration of Irish Protestants in the nineteenth century. The main hindrance in rectifying this gap has been finding a method with which to approach a very difficult historiographical problem. The Invisible Irish endeavours to fill this blank spot in the historical record. Rankin Sherling imaginatively uses the various bits of available data to sketch the first outline of the shape of Irish Presbyterian migration to America in the nineteenth century. Using the migration of Irish Presbyterian ministers as \"tracers\" of a larger migration, Sherling demonstrates that eighteenth-century migration of Protestants reveals much about the completely unknown nineteenth-century migration. An original and creative blueprint of Irish Presbyterian migration in the nineteenth century, The Invisible Irish calls into question many of the assumptions that the history of Irish migration to America is built upon.
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The Slow Failure
Today Ireland's population is rising, immigration outpaces emigration, most families have two or at most three children, and full-time farmers are in steady decline. But the opposite was true for more than a century, from the great famine of the 1840s until the 1960s. Between 1922 and 1966—most of the first fifty years after independence—the population of Ireland was falling, in the 1950s as rapidly as in the 1880s. Mary Daly's The Slow Failure examines not just the reasons for the decline, but the responses to it by politicians, academics, journalists, churchmen, and others who publicly agonized over their nation's \"slow failure.\" Eager to reverse population decline but fearful that economic development would undermine Irish national identity, they fashioned statistical evidence to support ultimately fruitless policies to encourage large, rural farm families. Focusing on both Irish government and society, Daly places Ireland's population history in the mainstream history of independent Ireland. Daly's research reveals how pastoral visions of an ideal Ireland made it virtually impossible to reverse the fall in population. Promoting large families, for example, contributed to late marriages, actually slowing population growth further. The crucial issue of emigration failed to attract serious government attention except during World War II; successive Irish governments refused to provide welfare services for emigrants, leaving that role to the Catholic Church. Daly takes these and other elements of an often-sad story, weaving them into essential reading for understanding modern Irish history
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