Ireland Abroad: Politics and Professions in the Nineteenth Century

by Oonagh Walsh

Overview

Irish migration has attracted considerable attention in recent years, with many studies examining the impact - physical, psychological and cultural - on emigrants' lives. The history of the Irish diaspora, however, requires an evaluation of the fuller experience, in particular the effects of migration on the host culture. This volume addresses the subject from the perspective of the contribution made by Irish migrants in Britain, Australia, Canada, France, China and the Orient. This essay collection, which brings together scholars from the disciplines of historical geography as well as literature and history, is a welcome addition to the growing subject of Irish Diaspora Studies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781851826063
Publisher:	Four Courts Press
Publication date:	07/01/2003
Series:	Nineteenth-Century Ireland Series
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.06(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

	Preface	7
	Introduction	9
1	Imaginings
	Republican self-fashioning: the journal of Wolfe Tone	16
	Orphans, upstarts and aristocrats: Ireland and the idyll of adoption in the work of Madame de Genlis	36
	Immigrant self-fashioning: the autobiographies of the Irish in Britain, 1856-1934	47
	Two versions of home and abroad from the Peninsular Campaign: Vandeleur and 'The Burial of Sir John Moore'	62
	'Who is Kim?': Rudyard Kipling and the haunting of the colonial imagination	71
2	Professions
	'The heroic Irish doctor'?: Irish immigrants in the medical profession in nineteenth-century Wales	82
	'What would people say if I became a policeman?': the Irish policeman abroad	95
	Moral maids and materialistic mistresses: Irish domestic servants and their American employers, 1850-1920	108
	Richard Robert Madden: an Irish anti-slavery activist in the Americas	119
	'Sketches of missionary life': Alexander Robert Crawford in Manchuria	132
3	Transmissions
	'In general, they do not answer well': Irish priests in the western lowlands of Scotland, 1838-50	147
	Fenian dynamite: dissident Irish republicans in late nineteenth-century Scotland	160
	Landscape, place and memory: towards a geography of Irish identities in colonial Australia	172
	Worlds apart: the Anglo-Irish gentry migrant experience in Australia	186
	Ireland abroad/broadening Ireland: from famine migrants to asylum-applicants and refugees	202
	Notes on contributors	215
	Index	217