Based on original research with Irish women both at home and in England, this book explores how questions of mobility and stasis are recast along gender, class,

Bringing together leading authorities on Irish women and migration, this book offers a significant reassessment of the place of women in the Irish diaspora. It

Notions of diaspora are central to contemporary debates about 'race', ethnicity, identity and nationalism. Yet the Irish diaspora, one of the oldest and largest

Presents the experiences of two burgeoning cities and the Irish people that helped to establish what it is 'to be Irish' within them

This collection of essays demonstrates in vivid detail how a range of formal and informal networks shaped the Irish experience of emigration, settlement and the