Introduction 1. Playing with Scales: Transnational History and Modern Ireland Niall Whelehan 2. Friend, Foe or Family? Catholic Creoles, French Huguenots, Scottish Dissenters: Aspects of the Irish Diaspora at St. Croix, Danish West Indies, c.1760 Orla Power 3. Irish Politics and Labour: Transnational and Comparative Perspectives, 1798-1914 Kyle Hughes and Donald M. MacRaild 4. "And All My Great Hardships Endured"?: Irish Convicts in Van Diemen’s Land Hamish Maxwell-Stewart 5. Count Cavour's 1844 Thoughts on Ireland: Liberal Politics and Agrarian Reform Through Anglo-Italian Eyes Enrico Dal Lago 6. Ireland’s Great Famine: A Transnational History Enda Delaney 7. "The Perverted Graduates of Oxford": Priestcraft, "Political Popery" and the Transnational Anti-Catholicism of Sir James Emerson Tennent Jonathan Jeffrey Wright 8. Irish-Polish Solidarity: Irish Responses to the January Uprising of 1863-64 in Congress Poland Róisín Healy 9. "A Land Beyond the Wave": Transnational Perspectives on Easter 1916 Fearghal McGarry 10. Irish America Without Ireland: Irish-American Relations with Ireland in the Twentieth Century Timothy J. Meagher 11. Returnees, Forgotten Foreigners and New Immigrants: Tracing Migratory Movement into Ireland Since the Late-Nineteenth Century Irial Glynn
Biography
Niall Whelehan is a Marie Curie Fellow in history at the University of Edinburgh.
"A transnational approach, properly conceptualized and disciplined, promises to offer the rising generation of historians of Ireland a potentially exciting intellectual and emotional escape route from the suffocating confines of ideologically inspired and conceptually vacuous perspectives. This is no petty ambition. To derive the full potential advantage of the approach requires transcending the comfortable insular assumptions in which so much of even the most intellectually impressive historiography of Ireland remains cocooned. More power to the pioneers."
-Professor Joe Lee, Director of Glucksman Ireland House, New York University
