{"product_id":"life-history-and-the-irish-migrant-experience-in-post-war-england-myth-memory-and-emotional-adaption-9781526163752","title":"Life History and the Irish Migrant Experience in","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLife history and the Irish migrant experience\u003c\/i\u003e offers a fresh perspective on the significance of England’s largest post-war migrant group for current debates on identity and difference in contemporary Britain. The first book to apply Popular Memory Theory to the Irish Diaspora, it opens new lines of critical enquiry within scholarship on the Irish in modern Britain. Combining innovative use of migrant life histories with cultural representations of the post-war Irish experience, it interrogates the interaction between lived experience, personal memory and cultural myth to further understanding of the work of memory in the production of migrant subjectivities. Based on richly contextualised case studies addressing experiences of emigration, urban life, work, religion, and the Troubles in England, chapters shed new light on the collective fantasies of post-war migrants and the circumstances that formed them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'This work is a refreshing analysis of the Irish in England that keeps the Irish people themselves in the foreground. [...] an original piece of work that sheds new light on the emotional and psychological aspects of Irish migrant life in England during this period. Hazley deserves credit for keeping the individual at the centre of an analysis where broad themes such as emigration, assimilation, and gender are explored, while also managing to emphasize wider patterns experienced by the Irish migrant community as a whole.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTwentieth Century British History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Myth, memory and emotional adaption: the Irish in post-war England and the ‘composure’ of migrant subjectivities\u003cbr\u003e1 Narratives of exit: the public meanings of emigration and the shaping of emigrant selves in post-war Ireland, 1945-69\u003cbr\u003e2 In-between places: liminality and the dis\/composure of migrant femininities in the post-war English city\u003cbr\u003e3 Lives in re\/construction: myth, memory and masculinity in Irish men’s narratives of work in the British construction industry\u003cbr\u003e4 Falling away from the Church? Negotiating religious selfhoods in post-1945 England\u003cbr\u003e5 Nothing but the same old story? Otherness, belonging and the processes of migrant memory\u003cbr\u003eConclusion: Myth, memory and minority history\u003cbr\u003eAppendix: Interviews\u003cbr\u003eSelect bibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041029226839,"sku":"9781526163752","price":24.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781526163752.jpg?v=1750948665","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/life-history-and-the-irish-migrant-experience-in-post-war-england-myth-memory-and-emotional-adaption-9781526163752","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}