1st Edition
Irish Identities in Victorian Britain
Introduction - Roger Swift and Sheridan Gilley 1. Identifying the Irish in Victorian Britain: Recent Trends in Historiography - Roger Swift 2. The Origins of the Irish in Northern England: An Isonymic Analysis of Data from the 1881 Census - Malcolm Smith and Donald MacRaild 3. Resistance and Respectability: Dilemmas of Irish Migrant Politics in Victorian Britain - Mervyn Busteed 4. The Making of an Irishman: John Ferguson and the Politics of Identity in Victorian Glasgow - Elaine McFarland 5. William O’Brien, M.P.: The Metropolitan and International Dimensions of Irish Nationalism - Philip Bull 6. English Catholic Attitudes to Irish Catholics - Sheridan Gilley 7. Irish Episcopalians in the Scottish Episcopalian Diocese of Glasgow & Galloway during the Nineteenth Century - Ian Meredith 8. Strangers on the inside: Irish Domestic Servants in England, 1881 - Bronwen Walter 9. ‘A source of sad annoyance’: The Irish and Crime in South Wales, 1841-1881 - Veronica Summers 10. ‘An Irish Power in London’: making it in the Victorian Metropolis - Roy Foster 11. A Conundrum of Irish Diasporic Identity: Mutative Ethnicity - Alan O’Day
Biography
Roger Swift is Emeritus Professor of Victorian Studies at the University of Chester, UK.
Sheridan Gilley is Emeritus Reader in Theology at the University of Durham, UK. They jointly edited The Irish in the Victorian City; The Irish in Britain, 1815-1939 and The Irish in Victorian Britain: The Local Dimension.
