ISBN:
9781350230057
Language:
English
Pages:
viii, 223 Seiten
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Illustrationen
DDC:
942.10049162009034
Keywords:
1500 bis heute
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British & Irish history
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Europäische Geschichte
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HIS015060
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HIS015070
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HISTORY / Europe / Ireland
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Migration, Einwanderung und Auswanderung
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Migration, immigration & emigration
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Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900
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Social & cultural history
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Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte
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London, Greater London
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London, Greater London
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London
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Iren
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Kultur
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Geschichte 1850-1916
Abstract:
Winner of the 2022 British Association of Irish Studies (BAIS) Book PrizeIn the years following the Irish Famine (1845-52), London became one of the cities of Ireland. The number of Irish in London swelled to over 100,000 and from this mass migration emerged a distinctive and vibrant culture based on a shared sense of history, identity and experience. In this book, Richard Kirkland brings together elements in Irish London's culture and history that had previously only been understood separately or indeed largely overlooked (as in the case of women's' contributions to London Irish politics and culture). In particular, Kirkland makes resonant cultural connections between Irish and cockney performers in the music halls, Irish trade fairs, temperance marches, the Fenian dynamite war of the 1880s, St Patrick's Day events, and the later cultural agitation of revivalists such as W.B. Yeats and Katharine Tynan.Irish London: A Cultural History 1850-1916 is both a significant contribution to our understanding of Irish emigrant communities in London at this time and an insightful case study for the comparative fields of cultural history and urban migration studies
Description / Table of Contents:
List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: 'That Great and Terrible City'1. 'Nature Intended Paddy for a Rural Existence': The St Giles Rookery and its Afterlives2. 'A Secret, Melodramatic Sort of Conspiracy': Fenian Violence and the Dynamite War3. Hibernia Exhibited: Irish London on Display4. 'Those Tumultuous Days': London's Irish Cultural Revival 5. ''Ria's on the Job': Irish Popular Performance in London6. 'An Irish Colony in the Midst of the Strangers': The Road to 1916Epilogue: The Slow Martyrdom of Dora Sigerson BibliographyIndex
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