Overview
- Provides scholarly perspectives on a range of timely concerns in Irish diaspora studies
- Opens up fresh interchanges and theoretical insights on questions of identity, Irishness and historiography
- Sheds light on the significant public debates on Irish and Irish emigrant identities that have emerged from Ireland’s The Gathering initiative (2013)
Part of the book series: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship (MDC)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Policy Contexts and Political Change
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Echoes from History and Irish Imaginaries
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Hidden Diasporas
Keywords
- Irish diaspora
- Irish emigration
- The Gathering
- Irish Studies
- Irish identity
- transnational
- Ulster Scots
- Scots Irish
- white slavery
- Robert Tressell
- Patrick MacGill
- London Irish
- James Hanley
- Northern Irishness
- working-class history
- Brexit
- Irish Government
- the Global Irish
- The Marriage Equality Referendum 2015
- James Orr
About this book
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr Michael Pierse is Lecturer in Irish Literature at Queen’s University Belfast. His research mainly explores the writing and cultural production of Irish working-class life, and over recent years has expanded into new multi-disciplinary themes. He is the author of Writing Ireland’s Working-Class: Dublin After O’Casey (2011).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Rethinking the Irish Diaspora
Book Subtitle: After The Gathering
Editors: Johanne Devlin Trew, Michael Pierse
Series Title: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40784-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-40783-8Published: 22 March 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-13250-7Published: 14 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-40784-5Published: 13 March 2018
Series ISSN: 2662-2602
Series E-ISSN: 2662-2610
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 299
Topics: Diaspora, Migration, History of Britain and Ireland, Historiography and Method