The Irish in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Problems of Integration

Datos Bibliográficos

ID8096783
AutoresM A G Ó Tuathaigh (autor de correspondencia)
Año1981
Volumen31
Páginas149-173
Fecha de publicación1981-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaTransactions of the Royal Historical Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0080-4401 • E-ISSN: 1474-0648
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/3679050
OpenAlexW1968227819
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas30
Referencias citadas44

Unlike their American cousins, the Irish immigrants in nineteenth-century Britain have, until recently, received comparatively little scholarly attention from historians. This is not to say that their presence in Victorian Britain has gone unnoticed; far from it. Throughout the nineteenth century the doings and, much more often, the mis-doings of the immigrant Irish were logged in massive detail by an army of social investigators, philanthropists, clergymen, royal commissions and parliamentary committees. But, with very few exceptions, the scholarly analysis of the data has only begun in earnest during the last two decades, and especially during the past few years. In a growing body of local and regional studies, and in studies of particular aspects of the Irish presence, the literature on the Irish immigrants is becoming not only more plentiful but also conceptually more sophisticated

Archaeology · Economic history · Immigration · Irish · Political science · History · Irish and British Studies