An immensely impressive, authoritative history of the Irish
diaspora 'A richly detailed, scholarly and challenging history'
Sunday Times 'For Irish history buffs, it's indispensable' Irish
Independent 'An absorbing, lucid and sometimes harrowing account'
Daily Telegraph 'Essential reading for understanding how the people
of Ireland shaped the world' Belfast Telegraph Drawing on the
latest ground-breaking research, and his own career-long engagement
with the complexities of Irish identity, Sean Connolly reveals the
forces that compelled millions of Irish men and women to abandon
their homeland, and explores their new lives in America, Canada,
Australia, New Zealand and elsewhere. What emerges is an Irish
story, but also a chapter in world history. Irish emigrants fled a
society blighted by poverty and lack of opportunity. But they also
became part of a massive population movement, driven by the
requirements of an ever more interconnected world economy, that
transported the adventurous and the desperate to new parts of the
globe. What distinguishes the Irish from tens of millions of other
European immigrants is the position they established in their new
homes. Initially treated as a despised and exploited underclass,
they created a commanding position, in politics, in the labour
movement, and, by the twentieth century, as cultural icons. From
his starting point in the grim realities of Famine and social
crisis, Sean Connolly takes the reader forward into the twentieth
century, when Ireland itself has become a receiver rather than an
exporter of emigrants, and when a reimagined Irishness has become a
commodity to be marketed to a global audience. On Every Tide plays
directly into wider, contemporary debates about migration, as well
as offering a unique and distinctive view of two hundred years of
Irish history.
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