TY  - BOOK
AU  - Herson,John
TI  - Divergent paths: family histories of Irish emigrants in Britain 1820-1920 
SN  - 9780719098338
AV  - DA125.I7 H47 2015
U1  - 305.8/9162/041 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Manchester
PB  - Manchester University Press
KW  - Irish
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Immigrant families
KW  - Ireland
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Discrimination & Race Relations
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Minority Studies
KW  - Emigration & Immigration
KW  - British & Irish History
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Family & Relationships
KW  - Migration, Immigration & Emigration
KW  - Emigration and immigration
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Irish emigrants and family history: a new approach -- The context: Irish emigration and Stafford -- Stafford's Irish families: the overall picture -- Pathfinders: labouring families before the Famine -- Refugees from the Famine -- Labouring families in the Famine's aftermath, 1852 onwards -- Lace curtain Irish? The families of craft, clerical and service workers -- Old soldiers and their families -- The Irish in the shoe trade -- The forgotten Irish: entrepreneurs and professionals -- Divergent paths: the conclusions to be drawn
N2  - This book is unique in adopting a family history approach to Irish immigrants in nineteenth century Britain. It shows that the family was central to the migrants' lives and identities. The techniques of family and digital history are used for the first time to reveal the paths followed by a representative body of Irish immigrant families, using the town of Stafford in the West Midlands as a case study. The book contains vital evidence about the lives of ordinary families. In the long term many intermarried with the local population, but others moved away and some simply died out. The book inve
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