Irish In Britain Research Articles

Religion, Class and Identity: The State, the Catholic Church and the Education of the Irish in Britain

The discourse of anti-Irish racism and anti-Catholicism the articulating context of Irish migration and settlement in mid-19th-century Britain the Catholic church and Irish communities in Britain Catholic education - the segregation and differentiation of the Irish in Britain Catholic education - incorporating the Irish in Britain the 20th-century legacy - Church, community and identity.

Religion, class and identity: the state, the Catholic Church and the education of the Irish in Britain

Journal Article Religion, class and identity: the state, the Catholic Church and the education of the Irish in Britain Get access Religion, class and identity: the state, the Catholic Church and the education of the Irish in Britain. By Mary J. Hickman. Aldershot, Hants: Avebury. 1995. 287pp. Index. £37.50. ISBN 1 856 28534 0. ‘Ben’ Pink Dandelion ‘Ben’ Pink Dandelion 1Woodbrooke College, Birmingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 72, Issue 4, October 1996, Page 811, https://doi.org/10.2307/2624166 Published: 01 October 1996

‘Lend us your eyes’: the Irish in Britain travelling exhibition

‘Lend us your eyes’: the Irish in Britain travelling exhibition

The Health Legacy of the Emigration: The Irish in Britain and Elsewhere, 1845–1995

Arguing that the life chances of the Irish emigration in different countries of destination are a highly significant topic for sociologists, this article examines aspects of the health of people of Irish descent born in Britain. This is the subject of a research programme in the Medical Sociology Unit in Glasgow, funded by the UK's Medical Research Council. This historical background to this venture lies in the discovery of a health disadvantage among the Irish in Britain, and the establishment of links between the Irish emigration and high mortality in British cities, despite low mortality in Ireland when the migration was at its height. Theoretical accounts which have guided investigation of this issue include the possibility of prolonged effects from early capitalism in Britain, or that of entrenched effects from cultural exclusion, whether derived from competition for jobs and housing, or from political and religious divisions. These varying accounts lead to competing predictions, and the paper concludes by reviewing progress in testing these predictions, and by suggesting implications for research in other countries of destination.

The Irish in Britain: Racism, incorporation and identity

The Irish in Britain: Racism, incorporation and identity

An Historical Geography of Ireland

Contributors. Acknowledgements. List of Illustrations. List of Tables. B.J. Graham, Early Medieval Ireland: Settlement as an Indicator of Economic and Social Transformation. B.J. Graham, The High Middle Ages. T.B. Barry, Date Medieval Ireland: The Debate on Social and Economic Transformation. R. Gillespie, Explorers, Exploiters and Entrepreneurs: Early Modern Ireland and its Context. L. Kennedy and L.A. Clarkson, Secular Trends and Regional Variation in Irish Population. L.J. Proudfoot, Regionalism and Localism: Religious Change and Social Protest. L.J. Proudfoot , Spatial Transformation and Social Agency: Property Society and Improvement. S.A. Royle, Industrialisation, Urbanisation and Urban Society in Post-Famine Ireland. M. Turner, Rural Economies in Post-Famine Ireland. C.J. Houston and W.J. Smyth, The Irish Diaspora: Emigration to the New World. B. Collins, The Irish in Britain. W.J. Smyth, The Making of Ireland: Agendas and Perspectives in Cultural Geography.

Integration or Segregation? The education of the Irish in Britain in Roman Catholic voluntary‐aided schools

The origins of Roman Catholic voluntary‐aided schools are examined in order to explore how the British state has dealt with its largest labour migrant group: the Irish. The argument developed is that ethnic minority issues, in particular those of integration and segregation, were at the heart of the institutionalisation of religious schools as part of the state education system in Britain. The divisions of 19th century British society embodied in religion, class, and national identity were expressed as anti‐Catholicism and anti‐Irishness. In Liverpool between 1835‐41 an educational experiment took place to introduce the ‘Irish System’ to the corporation schools in the city. The defeat of this experiment by an Tory/Anglican alliance which powerfully linked hostility to Catholicism with the ‘Irish Question’ ended prospects for a national, interdenominational system of education. The resulting compromise ensured that the children of Irish Catholics were segregated and differentiated from the rest of the work...

The Irish in Britain, 1815-1939.

The Irish in Britain, 1815-1939.

Irish Politics in Manchester 1890–1914

SummaryThis article questions the prevalent assumption that prior to 1914 the Irish in Britain were unquestioningly attached to the Liberal party. It suggests that Home Rule forced the Irish into wider political sympathies which embraced both radical Liberalism and Labour. The Irish in Manchester are highlighted and the “progressive” nature of local Nationalism described. It is also denied that the transfer of Irish loyalties to Labour was proof of the emergence of a class politics or of their integration into the unskilled working-class. It is suggested that this was, in fact, evidence of their continued cultural and political distinctiveness.

Brahmins and carnivores: the Irish historian in Great Britain

This paper is concerned with the teaching of Irish history in Great Britain, with the students, the teachers and their subject. Each merits a brief mention before any detailed discussion, in order to draw attention to the problems that exist, and to clear up any misunderstanding or ignorance about the task that is to be performed.In the great controversy between Edmund Burke and Thomas Paine occasioned by the French Revolution, Paine made at least one telling remark in his refutation of Burke’s defence of tradition and usage: he declared that an hereditary monarch was about as sensible as an hereditary mathematician. An hereditary Irish studies student in Great Britain makes about as much sense as both. Much nonsense is talked about the inherited genes of the Irish in Britain, on the assumption that (somehow) an interest in, and ability to comprehend, Irish studies can be transmitted from one generation of Irish immigrants to another. This may be the case; but if it is, it probably takes its rise from social rather than hereditary factors; and it is no more likely to produce an intelligent, perceptive student of Ireland than of France.

The outcast Irish in the British Victorian city: problems and perspectives

The early decades of the nineteenth century witnessed a substantial increase in the pace and scale of Irish emigration to Britain, a process which culminated in the massive Irish pauper influx of 1845-51 in the wake of the Irish famine. During this period the Irish-born population of England, Scotland and Wales rose from 415,000 in 1841 to 727,000 in 1851, reaching 805,000 in 1861, when it comprised 3.5 per cent of the population. Thereafter, the number of Irish-born declined to 653,000 in 1891, reviving only in the twentieth century. These figures do not, however, include the children of Irish immigrants born in Britain; thus the actual size of ethnic Irish communities was undoubtedly much higher than contemporary census returns suggest. Indeed, a survey of the Irish in Britain conducted in 1872 by the Nation, a Dublin weekly newspaper, argued that the number of Irish-born indicated in official statistics should be doubled in order to arrive at a more realistic enumeration of the ethnic Irish community in Britain.

Migrant Employment and the Recession — the Case of the Irish in Britain

"The past decade has witnessed a substantial contraction in the size of the Irishborn community in Britain. This paper uses shift share analysis to assess the extent to which job losses amongst the Irish in Britain over the years 1971-1977 may have induced return migration to Ireland. The article concludes that such 'push' factors are likely to have been relatively weak in comparison to the 'pull' of an Irish economy considerably more buoyant than that of Britain."

Migrant Employment and the Recession-the Case of the Irish in Britain

Migrant Employment and the Recession-the Case of the Irish in Britain

The Irish in Britain: intermarriage and fertility levels, 1971-1976.

Data from the 1971 British census are used to analyze fertility and intermarriage of the Irish in Great Britain. The demographic characteristics of the Irish population in Great Britain are also examined, and comparisons are made with the population as a whole.

IRISH IN BRITAIN HISTORY WORKSHOP

Journal Article IRISH IN BRITAIN HISTORY WORKSHOP Get access BERNARD CANAVAN BERNARD CANAVAN Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 12, Issue 1, AUTUMN 1981, Pages 196–198, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/12.1.196 Published: 01 October 1981

THE IRISH ABROAD: BETTER QUESTIONS THROUGH A BETTER SOURCE, THE CANADIAN CENSUS

A considerable body of writing on the Irish abroad now exists and it is possible from this literature to identify certain patterns of inquiry. For the most part the British studies of the Irish abroad are confined to actual emigrants and little attention is devoted to the issue of acculturation of second and third generation Irish in Britain. It is apparent, also, that many of these studies treat only the Catholic Irish. In the Canadian context, however, it is possible, using religious and ethnic census data, to identify the relative fortunes of Catholic and Protestant Irish emigrants in both the first and successive generations. A method of analysis is described and it is suggested that, employing alternative sources, a similar approach might be feasible for studies of the Irish in countries other than Canada.

Britain's Irish Periphery

SUMMARY The core‐periphery frame of analysis gives useful insights into Anglo‐Irish relations during the four centuries of the rise and decline of the British empire. The emigration from the Irish periphery of almost half those surviving to maturity has been the dominant feature of the relationship for 135 years. Emigration on this scale has created in southern Ireland a political void within which the institutional framework has petrified, leaving it ill‐fitted to cope with the situation created by the ending of empire. With Britain itself now peripheralised, massive emigration from Ireland is no longer possible, and a population that declined for over a century is now growing more rapidly than that of any other European country. Numbers at work, meanwhile, continue their 135 year‐old decline. The failure of half the population to get a livelihood in the Irish periphery underlies catholic/protestant strife in the north.RESUME La périphérie irlandaise de la Grande‐BretagneLe système d'analyse en termes de noyau‐périphérie fournit des aperçus utiles sur les relations anglo‐irlandaises pendant les quatre siècles de l'essor et du déclin de l'empire britannique. L'émigration hors de la périphérie irlandaise de près de la moitié de tous ceux qui atteignent l'age adulte constitue la principale caractéristique des relations depuis 135 ans. L'émigration à une telle échelle a créé dans le sud de l'Irlande un vide politique à l'intérieur duquel il s'est produit une pétrification du cadre institutionnel, laissant le pays guère apte à faire face à la situation créé par le démantèlement de l'empire. Etant donné que la Grande‐Bretagne appartient elle‐même à la périphérie à l'heure actuelle, l'émigration en masse hors de l'Irlande n'est plus possible, et une population en baisse pendant plus d'un siècle, est en train de se multiplier à présent plus rapidement que celle de tout autre pays d'Europe. La proportion de travailleurs, cependant, continue le mouvement de déclin, vieux de 135 ans. L'incapacité de la moitié de la population de gagner leur vie dans la périphérie irlandaise est à la base du conflit entre catholiques et protestants dans le nord.RESUMEN La periferia irlandesa de la Gran BretañaLa dialéctica centro‐periferia permite analizar mejor de las relaciones anglo‐irlandesas durante los cuatro siglos que vieron el nacimiento y la decadencia del Imperio Británico. La emigración de la periferia irlandesa por parte de casi la mitad de los que llegaban a la edad adulta ha sido el rasgo dominante de estas relaciones durante 135 años. Esta emigración tan importante ha creado en el Sur de Irlanda un vacío político que se ha fosilizado debido a la estructura institucional insuficiente para resolver la situación creada por la desaparición del imperio. Ahora, que la propia Gran Bretaña se ha convertido también en periferia, ya no es posible la emigración en masa de Irlanda, de manera que la población que no dejó de descender durante prácticamente un siglo, crece actualmente con un índice más elevado que cualquier otro país europeo. Entretanto, la población activa sigue disminuyendo, como desde hace 135 años. El que la mitad de la población de la periferia irlandesa no haya conseguido crearse un medio de vida es una de las raíces del conflicto entre católicos y protestantes en el norte del país.

The Failure of Britain's Irish Policy

The Failure of Britain's Irish Policy

The Irish in Britain. John Archer Jackson

Previous articleNext article No AccessBook ReviewsThe Irish in Britain. John Archer Jackson Joseph M. CurranJoseph M. Curran Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Journal of Modern History Volume 37, Number 2Jun., 1965 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/239668 Views: 5Total views on this site Copyright 1965 The University of ChicagoPDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

The Irish in Britain

The Irish in Britain