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The Irish in Post-War Britain (Hardcover)
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The Irish in Post-War Britain (Hardcover)
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Exploring the neglected history of Britain's largest migrant
population, this new major historical study looks at the Irish in
Britain after 1945. It reconstructs the histories of the lost
generation who left independent Ireland in huge numbers to settle
in Britain from the 1940s until the 1960s. Drawing on a wide range
of previously neglected materials, Enda Delaney illustrates the
complex process of negotiation and renegotiation that was involved
in adapting and adjusting to life in Britain. Less visible than
other newcomers, it is widely assumed that the Irish assimilated
with relative ease shortly after arrival. The Irish in Post-war
Britain challenges this view, and shows that the Irish often
perceived themselves to be outsiders, located on the margins of
this their adopted home. Many contemporaries frequently lumped all
the Irish together as all being essentially the same, but Delaney
argues the experiences of Britain's Irish population after the
Second World War were much more diverse than previously assumed,
and shaped by social class, geography and gender as well as
nationality.
This book's original approach demonstrates that any understanding
of a migrant group must take account of both elements of the
society that they had left, as well as the social landscape of
their new country. Proximity ensured that even though these people
had left Ireland, home as an imagined sense of place was never far
away in the minds of those who had settled in Britain.
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