Title Page; Contents; List of Tables; List of Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction: 'A Piece Cut Off from the Old Sod Itself'; Part One: 1800-1914; 1: Poor Paddy: The Irish in the Liverpool Labour Market; 2: 'The Lowest Depth': The Spatial Dimensions of Irish Liverpool; 3: The Holy Sanctity of Poverty: Welfare, Charity and the Sacred Irish Poor; 4: Faith and Fatherland: Ethno-Sectarian Collective Mutuality; 5: Electoral Politics: Towards Home Rule; 6: Extra-Parliamentary Politics: The American Connection; 7: 'Pat-riot-ism': Sectarian Violence and Public Disorder
Summary
Liverpool in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was a great cultural melting pot and processing point of migration from Europe to the USA. The Irish in particular crossed to Liverpool in their tens of thousands before setting out across the Atlantic. Here for the first time acclaimed historian John Belchem offers a ground-breaking and extensive social history of the elements of the Irish diaspora that stayed in Liverpool, enriching the city?s cultural mix rather than continuing on their journey. Covering the tumultuous period from the Act of Union to the supposed 'final settlement' b
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 324-350) and index
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