The Great Famine and Beyond: Irish Immigrants in Britain in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

ëThe Great Famine and Beyond presents some of the most important findings. Many of the essays in this collection challenge the assumption that the Irish assimilated relatively easily into British society: reports of ìethnic fadeî have been exaggerated.í The Irish Times ëThe Great Famine and Beyond is an extremely valuable addition to the historiography of the Irish in Britain and will be warmly welcomed by students of Irish migration more generally. It provides evidence of the continuing vi…