London Irish Fictions

London Irish Fictions
Author: Tony Murray
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2012-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1846318319

Examines the specific role that the metropolis plays in literary portrayals of Irish migrant experience as an arena for the performance of Irishness, as a catalyst in the transformations of Irishness and as an intrinsic component of second generation Irish identities.

London Irish

London Irish
Author: Zane Radcliffe
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2012-10-31
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1448167450

WINNER OF THE WH SMITH'S PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD [New Talent] There are 750,000 Irish living in London. One of them has to get out. For good... It is the summer of 1999. Bic (half-Irish, half-Scots) is eking out a living selling crêpes to the hordes descending on Greenwich market. With one severed ear, two bizarre deaths and the arrest of his dog for civil disobedience, Bic's year hasn't exactly been going to plan. But when raven-haired Roisin takes the stall opposite his, things seem to be looking up - if Bic can just get past her over-protective brothers. That is, until Bic wakes up the-morning-after-the-night-before, in his clothes, in Edinburgh, to find he's the UK's Most Wanted Man - on the run and with fourteen murders to his name... 'Very fresh, very funny' COLIN BATEMAN 'A huge and exciting plot...I loved the twist at the end' Goodreads 'Great story and full of humour' Goodreads

Irish London

Irish London
Author: Richard Kirkland
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 379
Release: 2021-08-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 1350133205

Winner of the 2022 British Association of Irish Studies (BAIS) Book Prize In the years following the Irish Famine (1845–52), London became one of the cities of Ireland. The number of Irish in London swelled to over 100,000 and from this mass migration emerged a distinctive and vibrant culture based on a shared sense of history, identity and experience. In this book, Richard Kirkland brings together elements in Irish London's culture and history that had previously only been understood separately or indeed largely overlooked (as in the case of women's' contributions to London Irish politics and culture). In particular, Kirkland makes resonant cultural connections between Irish and cockney performers in the music halls, Irish trade fairs, temperance marches, the Fenian dynamite war of the 1880s, St Patrick's Day events, and the later cultural agitation of revivalists such as W.B. Yeats and Katharine Tynan. Irish London: A Cultural History 1850–1916 is both a significant contribution to our understanding of Irish emigrant communities in London at this time and an insightful case study for the comparative fields of cultural history and urban migration studies.

Irish Writing London: Volume 1

Irish Writing London: Volume 1
Author: Tom Herron
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 181
Release: 2012-12-13
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1441168052

The first study to consider how Irish writers have regarded, reported and represented London in their fiction, drama and poetry.

Women and the Irish Diaspora

Women and the Irish Diaspora
Author: Breda Gray
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2004-07-31
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1134510837

Based on original research with Irish women both at home and in England, this book explores how questions of mobility and stasis are recast along gender, class, racial and generational lines.

Irish Writing London: Volume 2

Irish Writing London: Volume 2
Author: Tom Herron
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1441105549

The presence of Irish writers is almost invisible in literary studies of London. The Irish Writing London redresses the critical deficit. A range of experts on particular Irish writers reflect on the diverse experiences and impact this immigrant group has had on the city. Such sustained attention to a location and concern of Irish writing, long passed over, opens up new terrain to not only reveal but create a history of Irish-London writing. Alongside discussions of MacNeice, Boland and McGahern, the autobiography of Brendan Behan and identity of Irish-language writers in London is considered. Written by an internal array of scholars, these new essays on key figures challenge the deep-seated stereotype of what constitutes the proper domain of Irish writing, producing a study that is both culturally and critically alert and a dynamic contribution to literary criticism of the city.

The Irish Diaspora

The Irish Diaspora
Author: Andrew Bielenberg
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2014-05-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317878116

This book brings together a series of articles which provide an overview of the Irish Diaspora from a global perspective. It combines a series of survey articles on the major destinations of the Diaspora; the USA, Britian and the British Empire. On each of these, there is a number of more specialist articles by historians, demographers, economists, sociologists and geographers. The inter-disciplinary approach of the book, with a strong historical and modern focus, provides the first comprehensive survey of the topic.

An Unconsidered People

An Unconsidered People
Author: Catherine Dunne
Publisher:
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2021-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9781848408227

New updated edition of the seminal work by Catherine Dunne, which charted the lives of the London Irish, in all their variety and color, now with a brand new foreword by Diarmaid Ferriter. Half a million Irish people left Ireland in the nineteen-fifties, forced by decades of economic stagnation. For many, Britain was their only hope of survival.

Multiculturalism's Double-Bind

Multiculturalism's Double-Bind
Author: John Nagle
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2016-04-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 131709364X

Using a rich array of ethnographic and archival data closely considering the Irish and the manner in which ’Irishness’ was rendered inclusive, Multiculturalism's Double Bind demonstrates that multiculturalism can encourage cross-community political engagement in the global city. This book challenges the perceived wisdom that multiculturalism counteracts the opportunity for groups to move beyond their particularized constituency to build links and networks with other 'minority' groups. Theoretically informed and empirically grounded this volume will appeal to scholars across a range of disciplines, including migration and ethnicity, social and cultural anthropology, Irish studies and sociology.