This book makes innovative use of migrant life histories to further understanding the role of memory in the production of migrant identities. Offering a fresh perspective on the post-war Irish experience in England, it develops Popular Memory Theory to illuminate how migrantsà â â à â Ë recomposeà â â the self in response to the emotional challenges migration -- .
This book makes innovative use of migrant life histories to further understanding the role of memory in the production of migrant identities. Offering a fresh perspective on the post-war Irish experience in England, it develops Popular Memory Theory to illuminate how migrantsà â â à â Ë recomposeà â â the self in response to the emotional challenges migration -- .
Barry Hazley is Derby Fellow in the Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool and AHRC Research Fellow in History at the University of Manchester
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Introduction: Myth, memory and emotional adaption: the Irish in post-war England and the 'composure' of migrant subjectivities 1 Narratives of exit: the public meanings of emigration and the shaping of emigrant selves in post-war Ireland, 1945-69 2 In-between places: liminality and the dis/composure of migrant femininities in the post-war English city 3 Lives in re/construction: myth, memory and masculinity in Irish men's narratives of work in the British construction industry 4 Falling away from the Church? Negotiating religious selfhoods in post-1945 England 5 Nothing but the same old story? Otherness, belonging and the processes of migrant memory Conclusion: Myth, memory and minority history Appendix: Interviews Select bibliography Index
Introduction: Myth, memory and emotional adaption: the Irish in post-war England and the 'composure' of migrant subjectivities 1 Narratives of exit: the public meanings of emigration and the shaping of emigrant selves in post-war Ireland, 1945-69 2 In-between places: liminality and the dis/composure of migrant femininities in the post-war English city 3 Lives in re/construction: myth, memory and masculinity in Irish men's narratives of work in the British construction industry 4 Falling away from the Church? Negotiating religious selfhoods in post-1945 England 5 Nothing but the same old story? Otherness, belonging and the processes of migrant memory Conclusion: Myth, memory and minority history Appendix: Interviews Select bibliography Index
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