Religion, class and identity : the state, the Catholic Church and the education of the Irish in Britain
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Religion, class and identity : the state, the Catholic Church and the education of the Irish in Britain
(Research in ethnic relations series)
Avebury, c1995
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Bibliography: p. 255-273
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This text examines the Irish experience in Britain as a minority experience which has been profoundly shaped by the reponse of both the British state and the Catholic church to Irish migrants. Research about the education of the Irish is used to investigate how a group who, in the 19th century were large, visible and problematized, were transformed into an invisible and silent minority by the mid 20th century. The book contributes to debates about racism, identity and minority groups in Britain. Despite the European location of Ireland and their white skin, the Irish are subject to colonial racism.
Table of Contents
- The discourse of anti-Irish racism and anti-Catholicism
- the articulating context of Irish migration and settlement in mid-19th-century Britain
- the Catholic church and Irish communities in Britain
- Catholic education - the segregation and differentiation of the Irish in Britain
- Catholic education - incorporating the Irish in Britain
- the 20th-century legacy - Church, community and identity.
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