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Book SynopsisCompares Irish women across the globe over the last two centuries, setting this research in the context of recent theoretical developments in the study of diaspora
Trade ReviewWell known for her academic publications and public advocacy on the political rights of the Irish Diaspora. -- .
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Irish diaspora studies: theories, concepts and new perspectives – D. A. J. MacPherson and Mary J. Hickman
Part I: concepts and theories
1. Irish women and the diaspora: why they matter – Mary E. Daly
2. Thinking through transnational studies, diaspora studies and gender – Breda Gray
Part II: Irish women and the diaspora in Britain
3. Exploring religion as a bright and blurry boundary: Irish migrants negotiating religious identity in Britain – Louise Ryan
4. Irish-Catholic women and modernity in 1930s Liverpool – Charlotte Wildman
5. The thermometer and the travel permit: Irish women in the medical profession in Britain during World War II – Jennifer Redmond
6. Reflecting on gender and generation differences in celebrating St Patrick’s Day in London – Mary J. Hickman
Part III: Irish women and the diaspora in the British world
7. Placing Irish women within and beyond the British Empire: contexts and comparisons – Bronwen Walter
8. Border crossings: being Irish in nineteenth-century Scotland and Canada – S. Karly Kehoe
9. Irish Protestant women and diaspora: Orangewomen in Canada, c.1890-1930 – D. A. J. MacPherson
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