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Selected Bibliography on Irish society and migration in the twentieth century

Akenson, D. H. (1993). The Irish Diaspora: A Primer. Belfast, Institute of Irish Studies.

Bayor, R. H. a. Meagher, Timothy J., (Ed). (1996). The New York Irish. Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins University Press.

Beale, J. (1986). Women in Ireland: Voices of Change. Basingstoke, Macmillan.

Bielenberg, A. (2000). The Irish Diaspora. Harlow, England, Longman.

Browne, N. (1986). Against the Tide. Dublin, Gill and Macmillan.

Browne, T. (1981). Ireland. A Social and Cultural History 1922-1979. Glasgow, Fontana.

Byrne, P. (1995). "Emigration: The Great Non-Issue." The Furrow April: 224-269.

Casey, M. (1982). Over the Water. London, Livewire.

Clancy, P., Drudy, Sheelagh, Lynch, Kathleen and O'Dowd, Liam (1995). Irish Society: Sociological Perspectives. Dublin: Institute of Public Administration

Clarke R. W. G. and A. J. Parker. (1989).(Ed.) Ireland Contemporary Perspectives on a Land and its People. London, Routledge.

Commission on Emigration and Other Population Problems 1948-54 Reports, 1948-54, Dublin: Government Stationary Office.

Cowley, Ultan (2001) The Men Who Built Britain. Dublin, Wolfhound

Crotty W. C. and D. E. Schmitt (Eds.) Ireland and the Politics of Change, (pp. 51-65). Longman: London

Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations. (1995). Irish-born People in Great Britain: Settlement Patterns and Socio-economic Circumstances. Warwick, Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations in England.

Delaney, E. 2000 Demography, State and Society. Irish Migration to Britain, 1921-1971, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press

Drudy, P. J., Ed. (1985). The Irish in America: Emigration, Assimilation and Impact. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

Fallon, B. (1998). An Age of Innocence. Irish Culture 1930-1960. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan.

Farmer, T. (1991). Ordinary Lives: Three Generations of Irish Middle-Class Experience 1907, 1932, 1963. Dublin, Gill and Macmillan.

Ferriter, D. (1995). Mothers, Maidens and Myths. A History of The Irish Countrywomen's Association. Dublin, FAS.

Foster, R., F. (1993). Paddy and Mr Punch Connections in Irish and English History. London: Allen Lane.

Foster, R. F. (1988). Modern Ireland 1600-1972. London: Penguin Books.

Garvey, D. (1985). "The history of migration flows in the Republic of Ireland." Population Trends (39) pp. 22-30.

Gibbons, L. (1996). Transformations in Irish Culture. Cork, Cork University Press in assocation with Field Day.

Goldthorpe, J. H. and C. Whelan, T., (Eds.) (1992). The Development of Industrial Society in Ireland. Oxford, Oxford University Press.

Greenslade, L., Pearson, Maggie, and Madden, Moss (1991). Irish Migrants in Britain, Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool, Occasional Papers in Irish Studies, No. 3.

Handley, J. E. (1947). The Irish in Modern Scotland. Cork, Cork University Press.

Handley, J. E. (1971). Irish navvies in Scotland. Cork.

Hannon, D. (1979). Displacement and Development: Class, Kinship and Social Change in Irish Rural Communities. Dublin, Economic and Social Research Institute.

Hannon, D. and L. Katsiaouni (1977). Traditional Families? From Culturally Prescribed to Negotiated Roles in Farm Families. Dublin, Economic and Social Research Institute.

Heverin, A. (2000). ICA The Irish Countrywomen's Association. A history 1910-2000. Dublin, Wolfhound Press.

Jackson, J. A. (1963). The Irish in Britain. London, Routledge and Kegan Paul.

Jackson, J. A., (Ed.) (1969). Migration. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

Kearney, R. (1988). Across the Frontiers: Ireland in the 1990s. Dublin: Wolfhound Press.

(1990) (Ed.), Migrations: The Irish at Home and Abroad. Dublin: Wolfhound

Kennedy, K. (1986). Ireland in Transition. Dublin: The Mercier Press.

Keating, P. and D. Desmond (1993). Culture and Capitalism in Contemporary Ireland. Aldershot, Avebury.

Kelleher, J. V. (1957). 'Ireland...And Where Does She Stand?' Foreign Affairs: 485-495.

Kelleher, P. (1987). 'Familism in Irish Capitalism in the 1950s.' The Economic and Social Review 18(2): pp. 75-94.

Kelly, A. A. (1995). Wandering Women: Two Centuries of Travel Out of Ireland. Dublin, Wolfhound Press.

Kelly, K. and T. Nic Giolla Choille (1990). Emigration Matters for Women. Dublin, Attic Press.

Kennedy, R. E. J. (1973). The Irish: Emigration, Marriage and Fertility. Berkeley, University of California Press.

Keogh, D. (1995). "Ireland and 'Emergency' Culture,Between Civil War and Normalcy, 1922-1961." Ireland: A Journal of History and Society 1(1): 4-43.

Lee, J. J. (1989). Ireland 1912-1985: Politics and Society. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

Lennon, M., McAdam, Marie and O'Brien, Joanne (1988). Across the Water: Irish Women's Lives in Britain. London, Virago.

Litton, F. (Ed). (1982). Unequal Achievement: The Irish Experience 1957-1982. Dublin: Institute of Public Administration.

Lloyd, D. (1999). Ireland After History, Cork: Cork University Press.

Lyons, F. S. L. (1963). Ireland Since the Famine. London: Fontana.

Mac Laughlin, J. (1994). Ireland: The Emigrant Nursery and the World Economy. Cork: Cork University Press.

Mac Laughlin, J. (1997)(ed). Location and Dislocation in Contemporary Irish Society. Emigration and Irish Identities. Cork, Cork University Press.

McDermott, T. P. (1977). The Irish workers on Tyneside. Essays in Tyneside Labour History. N. McCord. Newcastle.

Miller, K., A. (1985). Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America. Oxford, Oxford University Press.

Miller, K. A. (1990).Migrations: The Irish at Home and Abroad. Dublin, Wolfhound:

Mulholland, J. and D. Keogh, Eds. (1989). Emigration, Employment & Enterprise. Cork, Hibernian University Press.

National, Economic and Social Research Council (1991). The Economic and Social Implications of Emigration, Dublin: NESRC.

Neville, G. (1992). "She never then after forgot him: Irishwomen and Emigation to the United States in Irish Folklife." Mid-America 74, pp. 271-89.

Neville, G. (1995). Dark Lady of the Archives: Towards an Analysis of Women and Emigration to North America in Irish folklore. Chattel, Servant or Citizen. M. O. Dowd and. S. Wichert. Belfast, The Institute of Irish Studies. pp. 200-14.

Neville, G. (1997). Land of the Fair, Land of the Free? The Myth of America in Irish Folklore. Exiles and Migrants: Crossing Thresholds in European Culture and Society. A. Coulson. Brighton, Sussex Academic Press. pp. 57-71.

O'Brien, J. A. 1954 The Vanishing Irish : the enigma of the modern world, London: Allen.

O Brien, J. and P. Travers (1991). The Irish Experience in Australia. Dublin, Poolbeg Press.

O'Carroll, I. (1990). Models for Movers: Irish Women's Emigration to America. Dublin, Attic Press.

O'Day, A. (1996). Revising the Diaspora. in D. G. Boyce and A. O'Day. The Making of Modern Irish History. Revisionism and the Revisionist Controversy London, Routledge: 188-215.

O'Farrell, P. (1986). The Irish in Australia. Kensington, New South Wales University Press.

O'Sullivan, P. e. (1992).The Irish Worldwide: History, Heritage, Identity. Leicester, Leicester University Press.

O'Sullivan, P. (1992). Patterns of Migration, The Irish in New Communities. Leicester, Leicester University Press.

O'Sullivan, P. (1993). The Creative Migrant. Leicester, Leicester University Press.

O'Sullivan, P. (1993). Religion and Identity. Leicester, Leicester University Press.

O'Sullivan, P. (1995). Irish Women and Irish Migration. Leicester, Leicester University Press.

O'Toole, F. (1994). Black Hole, Green Card: The disappearance of Ireland. Dublin, New Island Books.

Peillon, M. (1982). Contemporary Irish Society. Dublin, Gill and Macmillan.

Rossiter, A. (1991). Bringing the margins into the centre: a review of aspects of Irish women's emigration. in S. Hutton and P. Steward. (Eds.) Ireland's Histories: Aspects of State, Society and Ideology. London: Routledge: 223-42.

Ryan, L. (1990). Irish Emigration to Britain Since World War II. Migrations: The Irish at Home and Abroad. Dublin, Wolfhound, pp. 45-67.

Ryan, W. J. L. (1955). Some Irish Population Problems. Population Studies, 9, 185-88.

Thornley, D. (1964). 'Ireland: the end of an era', Studies, Spring pp. 3.

Walter, B. (1989). Geography Working Paper No. 4. Gender and Irish Migration to Britain. Cambridge, UK., Anglia Higher Education College.

Walter, B. (1989). Irish Women in London: the Ealing Dimension. London, Ealing Women's Unit.

Walter, B. (1995). "Irishness, Gender, and Place." Environment and Planning D. Society and Space 13, pp. 35-50.

Walter, B. (2001). Outsiders Inside. Whiteness, place and Irish women. London, Routledge.

Ward, R. (1991). Leading Lives: Irish Women in Britain. Dublin, Attic Press.

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