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Author : Thomas Martin Devine
Release : 1991
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Irish Immigrants and Scottish Society in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries by : Thomas Martin Devine
Download or read book Irish Immigrants and Scottish Society in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries written by Thomas Martin Devine. This book was released on 1991. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tom M. Devine
Release : 2001-01-01
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Irish Immigrants and Scottish Society in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries by : Tom M. Devine
Download or read book Irish Immigrants and Scottish Society in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries written by Tom M. Devine. This book was released on 2001-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Irish were the single largest group of immigrants to Scotland in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the original settlers and their descendants have had a major impact on modern Scottish society, culture and politics. This book of original studies is the first major reassessment of the general effect of Irish immigration on Scotland since the classic works of James Handley during the 1940s. All the contributors have produced significant research in the field, and the book provides a varied and balanced insight into current historical thinking on the Irish in Scotland.
Author : Martin Mitchell
Release : 2001-01-01
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Synopsis The Irish in the West of Scotland, 1797-1848 by : Martin Mitchell
Download or read book The Irish in the West of Scotland, 1797-1848 written by Martin Mitchell. This book was released on 2001-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The prevailing historical view of the Catholic Irish in the first half of nineteenth-century Scotland is that they were despised by native workers because of their religion and because most were employed as strike-breakers or low-wage labour. As a result of this hostility, the Catholic immigrants were viewed as a separate isolated community, concerned mainly with Irish and Catholic issues and unable or unwilling to participate in trade unions, strikes and radical reform movements. The Protestant Irish immigrants, on the other hand, were believed to have integrated with little difficulty, mainly because of religious, families and cultural ties with the Scots. This study presents a radically different view. It demonstrates that, whereas some Irish workers were used as a blackleg or cheap labour, others participated in trade unions and strikes alongside native workers, most notably in spinning, weaving and mining industries. The various agitations for political change in the region are analysed, revealing that the Irish – Catholic and Protestant – were significantly involved in all of them. It is also shown that Scottish reformers welcomed, and indeed actively sought, Catholic Irish participation. The campaigns for Catholic emancipation and the repeal of the Act of Union of 1800 are reviewed, as are the attitudes of the Scottish Catholic clergy to the political activities of their overwhelmingly Irish congregations.
Author : G. Vaughan
Release : 2013-08-20
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The 'Local' Irish in the West of Scotland 1851-1921 by : G. Vaughan
Download or read book The 'Local' Irish in the West of Scotland 1851-1921 written by G. Vaughan. This book was released on 2013-08-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vaughan renews perspectives on the changes brought about by Irish migrant communities in terms of identity, politics and religion. The book examines on the experience of generations of Irish migrants in the West of Scotland from the aftermath of the Great Famine until the creation of the Republic of Ireland.
Author : Andrew Newby
Release : 2019-08-06
Genre : Architecture
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Book Synopsis Ireland, Radicalism, and the Scottish Highlands, c.1870-1912 by : Andrew Newby
Download or read book Ireland, Radicalism, and the Scottish Highlands, c.1870-1912 written by Andrew Newby. This book was released on 2019-08-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the leading figures in radical politics in Ireland and Scottish highlands and explores the links between them. It deals with topics that have been at the centre of recent discussions on the Highland land question, the politics of the Irish community in Scotland, and the development of the labour movement in Scotland. The author argues that the Irish activists in the Scottish Highlands and in urban Scotland should be seen as adherents to notions of social and economic reform, such as land nationalisation, and not as Irish nationalists or Home Rulers. This leads him to make radical reassessments of the contributions of individuals such as John Ferguson, Michael Davitt and Edward McHugh. Andrew Newby looks closely at the political activities and ambitions of the Crofter MPs showing them to be a widely influential but diverse group: he reveals, for example, the extensive links between Angus Sutherland, the most radical of the Highland MPs, and John Ferguson's groupings of Irish political activists of urban Scotland. This is a balanced and vivid account of a turbulent period of modern Scottish history.
