The Irish in Britain, 1815-1939Roger Swift, Sheridan Gilley This work is a sequel to The Irish Victorian City. As a collection of national and regional studies, it reflected the consensus view of the subject by describing both the degree of the demoralization of the Irish immigrants into Britain for the early and mid-Victorian period, when they figured so largely in the official parliamentary and social reportage of the day; and then, in spite of every obvious difficulty posed by poverty, crime, disease, and prejudice, the positive aspect of the Irish Catholic achievement in the creation of enduring religious and political communities towards the end of the nineteenth century. |
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agriculture Alan O'Day branches Bristol Butt Captain Rock Catholic Socialist census cent Church Confederation counties crime criminality districts Dublin E.P. Thompson economic emigrants employment England English ethnic evidence Fenian Gaelic League ghetto Glasgow Gráda Home Rule Ibid impact in-migrants industrial industrial revolution Irish Catholic Irish community Irish immigrants Irish in Britain Irish migrants Irish National Irish National League Irish Poor Irish population Irish presence Irish settlement Irish settlers Irish vote Irish-born population Irishmen Labour Lancashire League Liberal Little Ireland Liverpool living London Manchester Memoirs migratory Moore Moore's movement nationalist nineteenth century non-Irish number of Irish O'Brien O'Sullivan occupations organization Papers parish Parliamentary Parnell party peasants police political priest proportion Protestant rates religious Report residential Roger Swift Scotland Scottish segregation Sheridan Gilley Sinn Féin social Society Stafford statistics suggests T.P. O'Connor Table tion tithes towns United Irish League unskilled urban Victorian City Wheatley Wheatley's Whiteboy workers