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Rethinking the Irish Diaspora

After The Gathering

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Editors:
  1. Johanne Devlin Trew

    1. School of Applied Social and Policy Sciences, Ulster University, Belfast, United Kingdom

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  2. Michael Pierse

    1. School of Arts, English and Languages, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom

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  • 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)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction: Gathering Tensions

    • Johanne Devlin Trew, Michael Pierse
    Pages 1-12

  3. Epilogue

    • Johanne Devlin Trew, Michael Pierse
    Pages 273-280

  4. Policy Contexts and Political Change

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13
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    2. Diaspora Engagement in Ireland, North and South, in the Shadow of Brexit

      • Johanne Devlin Trew
      Pages 15-57

    3. The Irish Government’s Diaspora Strategy: Towards a Care Agenda

      • Mark Boyle, Adrian Kavanagh
      Pages 59-79

    4. The Need for a “National“ Diaspora Centre in Ireland

      • Brian Lambkin
      Pages 81-107

    5. Marriage Equality North and South: The Journey After The Gathering

      • Danielle Mackle
      Pages 109-129

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 281-299
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About this book

This book provides scholarly perspectives on a range of timely concerns in Irish diaspora studies. It offers a focal point for fresh interchanges and theoretical insights on questions of identity, Irishness, historiography and the academy’s role in all of these. In doing so, it chimes with the significant public debates on Irish and Irish emigrant identities that have emerged from Ireland’s The Gathering initiative (2013) and that continue to reverberate throughout the Decade of Centenaries (2012-2023) in Ireland, North and South. In ten chapters of new research on key areas of concern in this field, the book sustains a conversation centred on three core questions: what is diaspora in the Irish context and who does it include/exclude? What is the view of Ireland and Northern Ireland from the diaspora? How can new perspectives in the academy engage with a more rigorous and probing theorisation of these concerns? This thought-provoking work will appeal to students and scholars of history, geography, literature, sociology, tourism studies and Irish studies.

Reviews

“This timely book achieves two unusual aspirations in Irish diaspora studies as it seeks to appraise various lacunae in relevant policy, academic and commercial fields. It considers perspectives from Northern Ireland on diaspora alongside those of the more commonly addressed Republic of Ireland, demonstrating in the process the rootedness in the national of all diaspora imaginaries. And, while both the main destinations of Irish emigrants - USA and Britain - are examined, more space is devoted to reviewing the dynamics of diasporic relations between Britain and Ireland, an often neglected aspect of Irish diaspora imaginations and images.” (Mary Hickman, Emeritus Professor of Irish Studies and Sociology, London Metropolitan University, UK)

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Applied Social and Policy Sciences, Ulster University, Belfast, United Kingdom

    Johanne Devlin Trew

  • School of Arts, English and Languages, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom

    Michael Pierse

About the editors

Dr Johanne Devlin Trew is Lecturer in the School of Applied Social and Policy Sciences, Ulster University, UK. Her research explores migration, diaspora, memory and historical narratives and she is the author of Leaving the North: Migration & Memory, Northern Ireland, 1921-2011 (2013).



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

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