Description
Book SynopsisDocuments for the first time a representative sample of Irish immigrant families and uses the techniques of family and digital history to explore their long-term fate. -- .
Trade Review'In this remarkable book, the author gives colour and life to this non-descript place, and voice to generations of the type of people that do not ordinarily feature in history writing. A micro-study of 22 out of a total of 206 Irish families who settled in Stafford in 1820-1920, what emerges from this collective family biography is unlike anything else in the canon of Irish migrant studies...The depth of research on show here is, at times, extraordinary.'
Ciaran O'Neill, Trinity College Dublin , Economic History Review, 69,2 (2016)
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Table of Contents1. Irish emigrants and family history: a new approach
2. The context: Irish emigration and Stafford
3. Stafford’s Irish families: the overall picture
4. Pathfinders: labouring families before the Famine
5. Refugees from the Famine
6. Labouring families in the Famine's aftermath, 1852+
7. Lace curtain Irish? The families of craft, clerical & service workers
8. Old soldiers and their families
9. The Irish in the shoe trade
10. The forgotten Irish: entrepreneurs and professionals
11. Divergent paths: the conclusions to be drawn
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