Life history and the Irish migrant experience in post-war England: Myth, memory and emotional adaption
ISBN: 9781526128010
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Manchester University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: History ; British Studies ; European Studies ; Sociology;

This book makes innovative use of migrant life histories to further understanding the role of memory in the production of migrant identities. Offering a fresh perspective on the post-war Irish experience in England, it develops Popular Memory Theory to illuminate how migrants' 'recompose' the self in response to the emotional challenges migration

Barry Hazley is Derby Fellow in the Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool and AHRC Research Fellow in History at the University of Manchester

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