Culture, conflict and migration : the Irish in Victorian Cumbria
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Culture, conflict and migration : the Irish in Victorian Cumbria
Liverpool University Press, 1998
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Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
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cased ISBN 9780853236528
Description
A major study of Catholic and Protestant Irish in an important but neglected centre of historic Irish settlement where communal violence and Irish-related antipathy bore the hallmarks of the Liverpool and Glasgow experiences.
Table of Contents
List of figures and tables
Note on the text
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Culture, conflict and migration: themes and perspectives
2. Patterns of arrival and settlement
3. Work
4. Catholicism and nationalism
5. The emergence and identity of Orangeism
6. Sectarian violence and communal division
Conclusions
Select bibliography
Index
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paper ISBN 9780853236627
Description
Examining some of the most important themes in the social and cultural history of Irish ethnicity and migration, this study concentrates on those who settled in Victorian Cumbria. In later 19th-century Cumbria, Irish settlers were more noticeable than in any region outside Lancashire and Tyneside. These Irish were overwhelmingly from Ulster, with many Protestants among them, which had enormous repercussions for the culture of Irishness as it was manifest in these new communities. Using a broad range of primary materials, the analysis of which is firmly rooted in comparative reference to other writings on the Irish in Victorian Britain, this study creates a picture of Irish settlement. It portrays Orangeism, nationalism, antipathy and communal violence as playing a key role in defining the nature of Irish migrant communities. By arguing that opposing Irish identities were maintained well into the late Victorian years, this text demonstrates that a culture of conflict was also prevalent in Cumbria.
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