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Irish in Post-War Britain

Name: Irish in Post-War Britain
Brand: Oxford University Press
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by Delaney, Enda (Lecturer in British and Irish History, University of Edinburgh)

Language: English
Binding: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2013
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Exploring the neglected history of Britain's largest migrant population, this is a major new study of the Irish in Britain after 1945. The Irish in Post-War Britain reconstructs, with both empathy and imagination, the histories of the lost generation who left independent Ireland in huge numbers to settle in Britain from the 1940s until the 1960s. Drawing on a wide range of previously neglected materials, Enda Delaney illustrates the complex process of negotiation and renegotiation that was involved in adapting and adjusting to life in Britain. Less visible than other newcomers, it is widely assumed that the Irish assimilated with relative ease shortly after arrival. The Irish in Post-war Britain challenges this view, and shows that the Irish often perceived themselves to be outsiders, located on the margins of their adopted home. Many contemporaries frequently lumped the Irish together as all being essentially the same, but Delaney argues that the experiences of Britain's Irish population after the Second World War were much more diverse than previously assumed, and shaped by social class, geography, and gender, as well as nationality. The book's original approach demonstrates that any understanding of a migrant group must take account of both elements of the society that they had left, as well as the social landscape of their new country. Proximity ensured that even though these people had left Ireland, home as an imagined sense of place was never far away in the minds of those who had settled in Britain.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History Regional & national history

57.86 €

Full title: Irish in Post-War Britain
Author: Delaney, Enda (Lecturer in British and Irish History, University of Edinburgh)
Language: English
Binding: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
EAN: 9780199686070
ISBN: 0199686076
ID: 02536891
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Weight: 312 g
Dimensions: 138 × 215 × 20 mm
Date of publishing: 05. September 2013