Demography, state and society : Irish migration to Britain, 1921-1971
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Demography, state and society : Irish migration to Britain, 1921-1971
Liverpool University Press, 2000
- : cased
- : pbk
Available at 5 libraries
Note
Bibliography: p. [315]-334
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Between the foundation of the new Irish state in 1921-22 and the early 1970s approximately one-and-a-half million people left independent Ireland, the vast majority travelling to Britain. Demography, State and Society is the first comprehensive analysis of the twentieth-century Irish exodus to Britain. Meticulously researched, using an exhaustive range of previously unused source materials, this book provides a detailed examination of the many ways in which migration shaped twentieth-century Irish society. The book focuses on a number of vital themes, many of them rarely mentioned by previous studies: state policy in Ireland; official responses in Britain; gender dimensions; individual migrant experience; patterns of settlement in Britain; and the crucial phenomenon of return migration. A major study of Irish migration, this book also offers much that will be of interest to scholars, students and general readers in the wider fields of modern British and Irish history.
Table of Contents
List of tables
List of figures
Acknowledgements
Glossary of Irish terms
List of abbreviations
Introduction
1. Perspectives on Irish migration
2. The interwar years, 1921-1939
3. Enter the state, 1940-1946
4. Postwar exodus, 1947-1957
5. Migration and return, 1958-1971
Conclusion
Appendices
Bibliography
Index
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