"A selection of papers delivered at the 'Ireland Abroad' conference held at the University of Aberdeen in April 2000"--Pref. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Ireland abroad/broadening Ireland : from famine migrants to asylum-applicants and refugees / Jason King. Orphans, upstarts and aristocrats : Ireland and the idyll of adoption in the work of Madam de Genlis / Cliona Ó Gallchoir -- Immigrant self-fashioning : the autobiographies of the Irish in Britain, 1856-1934 / Liam Harte -- Two versions of home and abroad from the Peninsular Campaign : Vandeleur and 'The Burial of Sir John Moore' / Peter Denman -- 'Who is Kim?' : Rudyard Kipling and the haunting of the colonial imagination / Kathleen Costello-Sullivan -- 'The heroic Irish doctor'? : Irish immigrants in the medical profession in nineteenth-century Wales / Louise Miskell -- 'What would people say if I became a policeman?' : the Irish policeman abroad / Elizabeth Malcolm -- Moral maids and materialistic mistresses : Irish domestic servants and their American employers, 1850-1920 / Diane M. Hotten-Somers -- Richard Robert Madden : an Irish anti-slavery activist in the Americas / Nini Rodgers -- 'Sketches of missionary life' : Alexander Robert Crawford in Manchuria / Oonagh Walsh -- 'In general, they do not answer well' : Irish priests in the western lowlands of Scotland, 1838-50 / Martin J. Mitchell -- Fenian dynamite : dissident Irish republicans in late nineteenth-century Scotland / Maírtín Ó Catháin -- Landscape, place and memory : towards a geography of Irish identities in colonial Australia / Lindsay Proudfoot -- Worlds apart : the Anglo-Irish gentry migrant experience in Australia / Ian McClelland -- Ireland abroad/broadening Ireland : from famine migrants to asylum-applicants and refugees / Jason King.
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