
Irish Migrants in Modern Wales.
Title:
Irish Migrants in Modern Wales.
Author:
O'Leary, Paul.
ISBN:
9781781386811
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (189 pages)
Series:
Liverpool Science Fiction Texts
Contents:
Title Page -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction - Towards Integration: The Irish in Modern Wales -- South Wales, the Coal Trade and the Irish Famine Refugee Crisis -- Irish Settlement in Nineteenth-Century Cardiff -- 'Decorous and Creditable': The Irish in Newport -- The Irish in Wrexham, 1850-1880 -- Reassessing the Anti-Irish Riot: Popular Protest and the Irish in South Wales, c. 1826-1882 -- The Cult of Respectability and the Irish in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Wales -- 'The Black Hand': 1916 and Irish Republican Prisoners in North Wales -- Comparing Immigrant Histories: The Irish and Others in Modern Wales -- Index.
Abstract:
The essays in this volume examine the experience of Irish migrants to Wales, comparing their experience with that of other migrants and offering case studies of Irish settlement in a number of Welsh towns.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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