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Between the lodge and the meeting-house

Mapping Irish Protestant identities and social worlds in late Victorian Toronto

Bibliographic Data

ID5003053
AuthorsWilliam Jenkins (University of British Columbia, corresponding author)
Year2003
Volume4
Issue1
Pages75-98
Publication date2003-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial & Cultural Geography (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1464-9365 • E-ISSN: 1470-1197
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/1464936032000049324
OpenAlexW2071234641
LanguageEN
Citations received8
References cited55

The urban lives of Irish Protestant immigrants and their descendants are a neglected feature in geographies of the Irish diaspora. Prominent settlers from the early nineteenth century, they played a key role in the shaping of a host culture in Anglophone Canada. The social and spatial processes that moulded Irish Protestants into a wider loyal British identity are examined at a number of scales in Toronto, 'the Belfast of North America'. After initially exploring the rhetoric and practices of city-wide institutions that served many Irish Protestants, the autobiographical reflections of John McAree are used as a case study on the micro-geographies of everyday lives experienced within local space as well as an empirical test for Bourdieu's ideas of practice and 'habitus

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Diaspora · Ethnography · Habitus · Identity (music · Immigration · Irish · Media studies · Political science · Protestantism · Rhetoric · Social space · Sociology · Anthropology · Canadian Identity and History · Gender Studies · History · Irish and British Studies · Law · Scottish History and National Identity

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Unique citing works8
Citations per year0,38
Citation span2005 - 2021 (17)
Citation velocityhistorical
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 8

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