Selected readings on emigration from Ireland (mainly ROI) in the
1980s
Coleman, D. (1999) "Demography and migration in Ireland, north
and south" in A. Heath, R. Breen and C. Whelan, Ireland north
and south: perspectives from social science, Oxford: Oxford University
Press
Corcoran, M. (1993) Irish Illegals: transients between two societies,
Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press
Corcoran, M. (1991) 'Informalisation of metropolitan labour forces:
the case of Irish immigrants in the New York construction industry',
Irish Journal of Sociology, vol. 1
Gray, B. (2003) Women and the Irish Diaspora, London: Routledge
Hazelkorn, E. (1992) 'We can't all live on a small island': the
political economy of Irish migration' in P. O' Sullivan ed. The
Irish World Wide, Vol. 2: the Irish in the new communities, Leicester:
Leicester University Press
Hickman, M. and Walter, B. (1997) Discrimination and the Irish Community
in Britain, Commission for Racial Equality
King, R. (1991) Contemporary Irish Migration, Dublin: GSI
King, R. and Shuttleworth, I. (1988) 'Ireland's new wave of emigration
in the 1980s', Irish Geography 21
Mac Laughlin, J. (1991) 'Social characteristics of recent emigrants
from selected regions in the west of Ireland', Geoforum 22(3)
Mac Laughlin, J. (1994) Ireland: the emigrant nursery and the world
economy, Cork University Press
Mac Laughlin, J. ed. (1997) Location and Dislocation in Contemporary
Irish Society: emigration and Irish identities, Cork: Cork University
Press
NESC (1991) The Economic and Social Implications of Emigration,
Dublin: National Economic and Social Council
NÌ Laoire, C. (1997) 'The political context of rural youth
migration in Ireland' in Lopez Ontiveros, A. and Molinero Hernandez,
F. From Traditional Countryside to Postproductivism: recent trends
in rural geography research in Britain and Spain, special issue
of Boletin de la Asociaci Ûn de Geografos Espanoles
Sexton, J. (1987) "Recent changes in Irish population and in
the pattern of Irish emigration", Irish Banking Review 3, pp
31-44
Shirlow, P. and Shuttleworth, I. (1994) 'Training, migration and
the changing world order: a case study from the Republic of Ireland'
in W. Gould and A. Findlay eds. Population, Migration and the Changing
World Order, Chichester: Wiley and Sons
Walter, B. (2001) Outsiders Inside: whiteness, place and Irish women,
London: Routledge
Northern Ireland:
Surveys / Statistics
Northern Ireland life and
times survey 2003 Belfast: ESRC.
(also previous surveys)
Northern Ireland Statistics
& Research Agency. 2004. Northern Ireland Census 2001: migration, travel
to work and workplace population report. Belfast: Northern Ireland
Statistics & Research Agency.
Vaughan, W.E., and A.J.
Fitzpatrick. 1978. Irish historical statistics: population, 1821-1971.
Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. (includes demographic statistics for Northern
Ireland from 1926-1971 and migration data from 1922-1971).
Northern Ireland /
Ulster migration (mostly historical)
(These are
items which include significant discussion of Ulster migration. There is also a
huge literature on Scotch Irish settlement in America not included here.)
All over the place:
people displaced to and from the Southern Border Counties as a result of the
conflict, 1969-1994. 2005. Dublin:
Combat Poverty Agency. (NI cross-border migration – report being released May
20, 2005)
Akenson, Donald H. 1993. The
Irish Diaspora: a primer. Toronto: P.D. Meany. (still one of the best sources
for demographics on Irish Protestants)
Delaney, Enda. 2002. Irish
emigration since 1921, Studies in Irish Economic and Social History; 8.
[Dublin?]: Economic and Social History Society of Ireland. (useful for NI
demographics, some analysis)
Dickson, R.J. 1976. Ulster
emigration to Colonial America, 1718-1785. Belfast: Ulster Historical
Foundation.
Gray, Arthur J. 1950, r1975.
An Ulster plantation: the story of the Katikati settlement. 2nd ed.
Wellington: A.H. & A.W. Reed.
Fitzgerald, Patrick. 2005.
'Come back Paddy Reilly': aspects of Irish return migration 1600-1850. In Emigrant
homecomings: the return movement of emigrants 1600-2000, edited by M.
Harper. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
Foy, R.H. 1989. Dear
uncle: immigrant letters to Antrim from the U.S.A., 1843-1852: the Kerr letters
with accompanying notes on their background. Antrim: Antrim & District
Historical Society.
Jenkins, William. 2002/2003.
Patrolmen and Peelers: immigration, urban culture, and 'the Irish police' in
Canada and the United States. Canadian Journal of Irish Studies 28 no.1
& 29, no.2:10-28.
Kennedy, Liam. 1994. People
and population change: a comparative study of population change in Northern
Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. Belfast: Co--Operation North.
Halpin, Brendan. 2000. Who
are the Irish in Britain? evidence from large-scale surveys. In The Irish
Diaspora, edited by A. Bielenberg. Essex: Pearson Education. (includes NI
stats)
Letford, Lynda, and Colin G.
Pooley. 1995. Geographies of migration and religion: Irish women in
mid-nineteenth-century Liverpool. In Irish women and Irish migration,
edited by P. O'Sullivan. London: Leicester University Press. (good analysis and
demographics for Irish Protestants)
MacRaild, Donald M.
2002/2003. Wherever Orange is worn: Orangeism and Irish migration in the 19th
and early 20th centuries. Canadian Journal of Irish Studies 28, no.2
& 29, no.1:98-116.
McAuley, J. 1996. Under an
Orange banner: reflections on the northern Protestant experiences of
emigration. In The Irish world wide: religion and identity, edited by P.
O'Sullivan. Leicester: Leicester University Press.
Mageean, Deirdre M. 1991.
From Irish countryside to American city: the settlement and mobility of Ulster
migrants in Philadelphia. In Migrants, emigrants and immigrants: a social
history of migration, edited by C. G. Pooley and I. D. Whyte. London:
Routledge.
Marshall, W.F. 1944. Ulster
sails west: the story of the great emigration from Ulster to North America in
the 18th century, together with an outline of the part played by Ulstermen in
building the United States. Belfast: The Quota Press.
Maume, Patrick. 2002.
Monaghan reimagined: The Orangeman (1915) as Ulster-American origin narrative. New
Hibernia Review 6 (1):113-129.
Miller, Kerby A., Bruce D.
Boling, and Liam Kennedy. 2003. The famine's scars: William Murphy's Ulster and
American odyssey. In New directions in Irish-American history, edited by
K. Kenny. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
Ni Laoire, Caitriona. 2003.
Discourses of nation among migrants from Northern Ireland: Irishness,
Britishness and the spaces in-between. Scottish Geographical Journal 118
(3):183-199.
O'Reilly, Dermot, and
Michael Stevenson. 2003. Selective migration from deprived areas in Northern
Ireland and the spatial distribution of inequalities: implications for
monitoring health and health inequalities. Social Science & Medicine
57:1455-1462.
Parkhill, Trevor. 1991.
Convicts, orphans, settlers: patterns of emigration from Ulster to Australia,
1790-1860. In The Irish experience in Australia, edited by J. O'Brien
and P. Travers. Dublin: Poolbeg.
Parkhill, Trevor. 1989.
'Prospects of this New Colony': letters of Ulster emigrants to New Zealand
1840-1900. Familia 2 (5):38-42.
Pooley, Colin G. 2000. From
Londonderry to London: identity and sense of place for a Protestant Northern
Irish woman in the 1930s. In The great famine and beyond: Irish migrants in
Britain in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, edited by D. M.
MacRaild. Dublin: Irish Academic Press.
Richards, Eric. 2004. Britannia's
children: emigration from England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland since 1600.
London: Hambledon and London.
Sexton, J.J. 2003.
Emigration and immigration in the twentieth century: an overview. In A new
history of Ireland, vol. 7: Ireland, 1921-84, edited by J. R. Hill. Oxford:
Oxford University Press. (includes NI demographics, some analysis)
Wells, Ronald A. 1991. Ulster
migration to America: letters from three Irish families. New York: Peter
Lang.
Walker, G. 1991. The
Protestant Irish in Scotland. In Irish immigrants and Scottish society in
the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: proceedings of the Scottish Historical
Studies Seminar, University of Strathclyde 1989-90, edited by T. Devine.
Edinburgh: John Donald.
Walter, Bronwen. 2002. “A
study of the existing sources of information and analysis about the Irish
emigrants and Irish communities abroad: research study undertaken for Task
Force on Policy Regarding Emigrants.” Summary available as Appendix IV to Task
Force report. (includes recent data on NI and brief analysis) |
