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The Irish Diaspora
Ireland is known worldwide as a country that produce emigrants. The existence of the Irish ‘diaspora’ is the subject of this fifth instalment of the 'Irish perspectives' collaboration between Pen and Sword and History Ireland. From the early Christian era Irish missionaries travelled across Europe, from the early modern period Irish soldiers served across the world in various European armies and empires, and in the modern era, Ireland’s position on the edge of the Atlantic made Irish emigrants amongst the most visible migrants in an era of mass migration. Ranging from Europe to Africa to the Americas and Australia, this anthology explores the lives and experiences of Irish educators, missionaries, soldiers, insurgents, from those who simply sought a better life overseas to those with little choice in the matter, and who established an Irish presence across the globe as they did so.
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The Irish Diaspora
Ireland is known worldwide as a country that produce emigrants. The existence of the Irish ‘diaspora’ is the subject of this fifth instalment of the 'Irish perspectives' collaboration between Pen and Sword and History Ireland. From the early Christian era Irish missionaries travelled across Europe, from the early modern period Irish soldiers served across the world in various European armies and empires, and in the modern era, Ireland’s position on the edge of the Atlantic made Irish emigrants amongst the most visible migrants in an era of mass migration. Ranging from Europe to Africa to the Americas and Australia, this anthology explores the lives and experiences of Irish educators, missionaries, soldiers, insurgents, from those who simply sought a better life overseas to those with little choice in the matter, and who established an Irish presence across the globe as they did so.
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The Irish Diaspora

The Irish Diaspora

The Irish Diaspora

The Irish Diaspora

Overview

Ireland is known worldwide as a country that produce emigrants. The existence of the Irish ‘diaspora’ is the subject of this fifth instalment of the 'Irish perspectives' collaboration between Pen and Sword and History Ireland. From the early Christian era Irish missionaries travelled across Europe, from the early modern period Irish soldiers served across the world in various European armies and empires, and in the modern era, Ireland’s position on the edge of the Atlantic made Irish emigrants amongst the most visible migrants in an era of mass migration. Ranging from Europe to Africa to the Americas and Australia, this anthology explores the lives and experiences of Irish educators, missionaries, soldiers, insurgents, from those who simply sought a better life overseas to those with little choice in the matter, and who established an Irish presence across the globe as they did so.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781526769572
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Publication date: 04/06/2023
Series: Irish Perspectives
Pages: 168
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.20(h) x (d)

About the Author

John Gibney is a historian attached to the Royal Irish Academy's Documents on Irish Foreign Policy Project. He is a longtime contributor to History Ireland.

Table of Contents

Preface vii

Contributors ix

Introduction: Irish diasporas xi

Chapter 1 The Irish medieval pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela 1

Chapter 2 Festive Irishmen: an 'Irish' procession in Stuttgart, 1617 11

Chapter 3 Not only seminaries: the political role of the Irish colleges in seventeenth-century Spain 23

Chapter 4 From Baltimore to Barbary: the 1631 sack of Baltimore 33

Chapter 5 The Scotch-Irish & the eighteenth-century Irish diaspora 43

Chapter 6 Revd James MacSparran's America Dissected (1753): eighteenth-century emigration and constructions of 'Irishness' 53

Chapter 7 The Irish and the Atlantic slave trade 63

Chapter 8 'The entire island is United…': the attempted United Irish rising in Newfoundland, 1800 75

Chapter 9 Emigrant letters: 'I take up my pen to write these few lines' 85

Chapter 10 Secret diasporas: the Irish in Latin America and the Caribbean 95

Chapter 11 Lifting the veil on entrepreneurial Irishwomen: running convents in nineteenth-century England and Wales 103

Chapter 12 Swapping Canada for Ireland: the Fenian invasion of 1866 113

Chapter 13 A training school for rebels: Fenians in the French Foreign Legion 121

Chapter 14 The Friends of Irish freedom: a case-study in Irish-American Nationalism, 1916-21 129

Chapter 15 The Orange Order in Africa 139

Chapter 16 'My father was a full-blooded Irishman': recollections of Irish immigrants in the 'slave narratives' from the New Deal's Works Progress Administration 145

Bibliography 153

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