Irish, Catholic and Scouse [electronic resource] : The History of the Liverpool Irish, 1800-1939
Belchem, John.
Liverpool : Liverpool University Press,
2007.
Liverpool in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was a great cultural melting pot and processing point of migration from Europe to the USA. The Irish in particular crossed to Liverpool in their tens of thousands before setting out across the Atlantic. Here for the first time acclaimed historian John Belchem offers a ground-breaking and extensive social history of the elements of the Irish diaspora that stayed in Liverpool, enriching the city's cultural mix rather than continuing on their journey. Covering the tumultuous period from the Act of Union to the supposed 'final settlement' b
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Title Page; Contents; List of Tables; List of Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction: 'A Piece Cut Off from the Old Sod Itself'; Part One: 1800-1914; 1: Poor Paddy: The Irish in the Liverpool Labour Market; 2: 'The Lowest Depth': The Spatial Dimensions of Irish Liverpool; 3: The Holy Sanctity of Poverty: Welfare, Charity and the Sacred Irish Poor; 4: Faith and Fatherland: Ethno-Sectarian Collective Mutuality; 5: Electoral Politics: Towards Home Rule; 6: Extra-Parliamentary Politics: The American Connection; 7: 'Pat-riot-ism': Sectarian Violence and Public Disorder
8: Cultural Politics: National Regeneration and Ethnic Revival9: Leisure: Irish Recreation; Part Two: 1914-39; 10: The First World War: Free Citizens of a Free Empire?; 11: The Liverpool-Irish and the Irish Revolution; 12: Depression, Decline and Heritage Recovery; Bibliography; Index
Liverpool in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was a great cultural melting pot and processing point of migration from Europe to the USA. The Irish in particular crossed to Liverpool in their tens of thousands before setting out across the Atlantic. Here for the first time acclaimed historian John Belchem offers a ground-breaking and extensive social history of the elements of the Irish diaspora that stayed in Liverpool, enriching the city's cultural mix rather than continuing on their journey. Covering the tumultuous period from the Act of Union to the supposed 'final settlement' b
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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