Title Death in the diaspora : British and Irish gravestones / edited by Nicholas J. Evans and Angela McCarthy

Published Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2020] ©2020

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations Series Studies in British and Irish Migration Studies in British and Irish migration. Contents Intro -- Death in the Diaspora -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- The Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Series Editors' Introduction -- 1 Introduction: Death in the Diaspora: British and Irish Gravestones -- 2 Forgetting and Remembering: Scots Ulster and Ulster Scots Memorials in Eighteenth-Century Ulster, Pennsylvania and Nineteenth-century New South Wales -- 3 Imposing Identity: Death Markers to 'English' People in Barbados 1627-1838 -- 4 Looking for Thistles in Stone Gardens: The Cemeteries of Nova Scotia's Scottish Immigrants 5 Scottish Gravestones in Ceylon in Comparative Perspective -- 6 Irish Memorialisation in South Australia, 1850-99 -- 7 Memorialising the Diasporic Cornish -- 8 Documents in Stone: Records of Lives and Deaths of Scots Abroad and in Scotland -- 9 Conclusion -- Index Summary Pioneering comparative study of how and why migrants from Scotland, Ireland, England and Wales displayed attachment to home on headstones and memorial markers erected across the British World between the 17th and 20th centuries Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject British -- Funeral customs and rites Irish -- Funeral customs and rites British -- Foreign countries -- Social conditions Irish -- Foreign countries -- Social conditions Sepulchral monuments -- Great Britain -- History Sepulchral monuments -- Ireland -- History Sepulchral monuments -- Commonwealth countries -- History Burial -- Great Britain -- History Burial -- Ireland -- History Burial -- Commonwealth countries -- History HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain Burial Sepulchral monuments Commonwealth countries Great Britain Ireland Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Evans, Nicholas J., editor. McCarthy, Angela, 1971- editor. ISBN 9781474473804 1474473806 9781474491273 1474491278

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