This established study focuses on the most important phase of Irish migration, providing analysis of why and how the Irish settled in Britain in such numbers. Updated and expanded, the new edition now extends the coverage to 1939 and features new chapters on gender and the Irish diaspora in a global perspective.

The Irish Diaspora in Britain, 1750-1939 (Social History in Perspective, 69)

History

Donald M. MacRaild

Europe

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Irish Migrants in Modern Britain, 1750-1922

Ireland was unique among European countries in having a smaller population at the beginning of the 20th century than it had 100 years previously. This demographic decline was prompted by a series of social and economic factors, and emigration became so common that by 1891 forty percent of all the world's Irish-born were living outside Ireland. In this book, Donald MacRaild studies the Irish who settled in Britain and the often adverse reactions to them. From 1750, as Ireland became an increasingly full part of the United Kingdom, to the final parting of the ways in 1922 when the Irish Free State was formed, the often troubled relationship between Ireland and Britain meant that the sheer weight of Irish immigration created tensions far more severe than those generated by other immigrants.

Irish Migrants in Modern Britain, 1750-1922 (Social History in Perspective)

The Irish in Britain 1800-1914 (Studies in Irish Economic and Social History)

Economic & Social History Society of Ireland

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