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The Best Are Leaving - Emigration and Post-War Irish Culture (Paperback)
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The Best Are Leaving - Emigration and Post-War Irish Culture (Paperback)
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Clair Wills's The Best Are Leaving is an important and wide-ranging
study of post-war Irish emigrant culture. Wills analyses
representations of emigrants from Ireland and of Irish immigrants
in Britain across a range of discourses, including official
documents, sociological texts, clerical literature, journalism,
drama, literary fiction, and popular literature and film. This
book, written by a leading critic of Irish literature and culture,
examines public opinion about post-war emigration from Ireland and
about the immigrant community in Britain by discussing topics such
as the loss of the finest people from rural Ireland and the
destruction of traditional communities; the anxieties of women
emigrants and their desire for the benefits of modern consumer
society; the stereotype of the drunken Irishman; the charming and
authentic country Irish in the city; and the ambiguous meanings of
Irish Catholicism in England, which was viewed as both a
threatening and civilising force. Wills explores this theme of
emigration through writers as diverse as M. J. Molloy, John B.
Keane, Tom Murphy, and Edna O'Brien.
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