Title The best are leaving : emigration and post-war Irish culture / Clair Wills, Queen Mary, University of London

Published New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2015

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Description 1 online resource Contents Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Table of contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; Part I Emigrants; Chapter 1 The Best Are Leaving; 'The Survival of the Unfittest'; 'The Moral Aspect of the Problem'; 'The Weakening of Our Nationality'; 'Luxurious Living and Modern Sanitation'; Chapter 2 Pink Witch; Toothpaste and Cosmetics; Toffs and the Poorer Type of Girl; 'Love and Things'; Part II Immigrants; Chapter 3 British Paddies; Ethnography and the Irish Male Immigrant; Turning a Shade Darker; Chapter 4 The Vanishing Irish The Deserving and the Undeserving PoorThe Bucklep; 'An Indefinably Natural Quality'; Chapter 5 Clay Is the Flesh; Afterword; Bibliography; Manuscripts; Television, Film and Radio; Newspapers, Journals and Magazines; Published Sources; Index Summary Clair Wills's The Best Are Leaving is a study of representations of Irish emigrant culture and of Irish immigrants in Britain Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Irish -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century Irish -- Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 20th century SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration. Emigration and immigration Irish Irish -- Social conditions SUBJECT Great Britain -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century Ireland -- Emigration and immigration -- History Subject Great Britain Ireland Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781316129067 1316129063 9781107261372 1107261376

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