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The Irish Diaspora
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A history of the Irish migrant experience across the globe, as told through real-life stories from throughout the centuries.
Ireland is known worldwide as a country that produced emigrants. The existence of the Irish "diaspora" is the subject of this fifth installment of the Irish Perspectives series. From the early Christian era, Irish missionaries traveled across Europe. From the early modern period, Irish soldiers served across the world in various European armies and empires. And in the modern era, Ireland's position on the edge of the Atlantic made Irish emigrants amongst the most visible migrants in an era of mass migration. Ranging from Europe to Africa to the Americas and Australia, this anthology explores the lives and experiences of Irish educators, missionaries, soldiers, insurgents, from those who simply sought a better life overseas to those with little choice in the matter, all establishing an Irish presence across the globe as they did so.
Ireland is known worldwide as a country that produced emigrants. The existence of the Irish "diaspora" is the subject of this fifth installment of the Irish Perspectives series. From the early Christian era, Irish missionaries traveled across Europe. From the early modern period, Irish soldiers served across the world in various European armies and empires. And in the modern era, Ireland's position on the edge of the Atlantic made Irish emigrants amongst the most visible migrants in an era of mass migration. Ranging from Europe to Africa to the Americas and Australia, this anthology explores the lives and experiences of Irish educators, missionaries, soldiers, insurgents, from those who simply sought a better life overseas to those with little choice in the matter, all establishing an Irish presence across the globe as they did so.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Contributors
- Introduction Irish diasporas
- Chapter 1 The Irish medieval pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela
- Chapter 2 Festive Irishmen: an âIrishâ procession in Stuttgart, 1617
- Chapter 3 Not only seminaries: the political role of the Irish colleges in seventeenth-century Spain
- Chapter 4 From Baltimore to Barbary: the 1631 sack of Baltimore
- Chapter 5 The Scotch-Irish & the eighteenth-century Irish diaspora
- Chapter 6 Revd James MacSparranâs America Dissected (1753): eighteenth-century emigration and constructions of âIrishnessâ
- Chapter 7 The Irish and the Atlantic slave trade
- Chapter 8 âThe entire island is UnitedâŚâ: the attempted United Irish rising in Newfoundland, 1800
- Chapter 9 Emigrant letters: âI take up my pen to write these few linesâ
- Chapter 10 Secret diasporas: the Irish in Latin America and the Caribbean
- Chapter 11 Lifting the veil on entrepreneurial Irishwomen: running convents in nineteenth-century England and Wales
- Chapter 12 Swapping Canada for Ireland: the Fenian invasion of 1866
- Chapter 13 A training school for rebels: Fenians in the French Foreign Legion
- Chapter 14 The Friends of Irish freedom: a case-study in Irish-American Nationalism, 1916-21
- Chapter 15 The Orange Order in Africa
- Chapter 16 âMy father was a full-blooded Irishmanâ: recollections of Irish immigrants in the âslave narrativesâ from the New Dealâs Works Progress Administration
- Bibliography