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Irish Migrants in New Communities

Seeking the Fair Land?
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Irish migrants in new communities: Seeking the Fair Land? comprises the second collection of essays by these editors exploring fresh aspects and perspectives on the subject of the Irish diaspora. This volume, edited by Mairtin O Cathain and Micheal O hAodha, develops many of the oral history themes of the first book and concentrates more on issues surrounding the adaptation of migrants to new or host environments and cultures. These new places often have a jarring effect, as well as a welcoming air, and the Irish bring their own interpretations, hostilities, and suspicions, all of which are explored in a fascinating and original number of new perspectives.
Part 1: Fitting in Chapter 1- Tribal Kings and Tattooed Chiefs: The Hidden Irish of the Pacific World Malcolm Campbell Chapter 2- Legends of the Graceville Conamaras Bridget Connelly Chapter 3- `Je ne suis jamais alle en Irlande': An Irish Journey to La Beauce, Quebec Noemie Beck and Gearoid O hAllmhurain Chapter 4- `Nobody's baby': Forgotten Irish nationals in post-independence India Kate O'Malley Chapter 5- Sisters in the field: The courageous journey of the pioneering Loreto sisters to India and Canada Tara Manning Chapter 6- Irish Soldiers in the American Civil War Patricia B. Swan and James B. Swan Part 2: Shaping up Chapter 7- The Irish Wellspring Jay Tunney Chapter 8- `From Poverty to Posterity': Assisted Emigration from Connemara in the 1880s Gerard Moran Chapter 9- Michael Mooney and the Leadville Miners' Strike of 1880 James Patrick Walsh Chapter 10- `I Wish I Was Back Home in Derry': Songs Composed in the H Blocks and the Paradox of Exile Lachlan Whalen
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