Migrations in Irish society and literature : new worlds, new words /

This book addresses the issue of migration to and from Ireland since the 17th and 18th centuries and examines the dynamics of emigration and immigration down to the present day. It is distinctive in its pluri-disciplinary approach of migrating issues in Ireland, as well as the way it confronts indiv...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Mianowski, Marie (Editor), Molinari, Véronique (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2026]
Subjects:	Emigration and immigration in literature. Irish > Migrations > History > 17th century. Irish > Migrations > History > 18th century. Irish diaspora. Irish in literature. Émigration et immigration dans la littérature. Irlandais dans la littérature. Emigration and immigration in literature Irish > Migrations > History. Irish in literature 1600-1699 1700-1799

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1. Introduction (Mianowski and Molinari)
Part I: Emigration from Ireland
Chapter 2. "The Great Wheel of our Machine" : Olive Trant: an Atypical Irish Migrant During the Jacobite Period 1650-1750 (Farrell)
Chapter 3. 'Thorns in the Sides of Hundreds of Protestant Husbands': The Emigration of Irish Female Orphans to the Australian Colonies and the Earl Grey Scheme Controversy (1848-1850) (Molinari)
Chapter 4. Going Native: Maud MacCarthy in India (Jindani)
Chapter 5. Curating 'Entangled Islands: Ireland and the Caribbean' at EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum (Healy)
Part II: Immigration to Ireland
Chapter 6. Migrants and Migrations on the Island of Ireland Before and After Brexit: How Soft is the Irish border? (Macovei, Ní Chiosáin & Rault)
Chapter 7. Voices from the Margins: Direct Provision (Ní Gheallabháin)
Chapter 8. Migrations and Primary Schooling in the Republic of Ireland: Potential and Limitations of School Choice? (Fournier-Noel)
Part III: Writing the Migrating Experience: Writing the Journey Out
Chapter 9. 'This Road is Not New': Early Modern Poethics of Migration in John Montague and Michael Hartnett (Lamb)
Chapter 10. On the Chances of Migrant Voices Making it Through: Records of Migration in Contemporary Irish Poetry (Trachsler)
Part IV: Power and Agency: The Turbulences of Belonging
Chapter 11. Archipelagic migrations in Nuala O'Connor's Seaborne (2024) (McCann)
Chapter 12. Power and Powerlessness: Narratives of Young Female Asylum Seekers in Recent Irish YA Novels (Penet)
Chapter 13. "The kin' English dey speak, me I don't understand at all": Investigating the Linguistic, Stylistic and Literary Stakes of Nonstandard Language in Melatu Uche Okorie's This Hostel Life (2018) (Boichard)
Chapter 14. "'When travelling& : Migration as Translation in Yan Ge's Elsewhere" (2023) (Sinoimeri).