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Life History and the Irish Migrant Experience in Post-War England: Myth, Memory and Emotional Adaption

Life History and the Irish Migrant Experience in Post-War England: Myth, Memory and Emotional Adaption

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

  • Manchester University Press
  • 9781526163752
  • 272 pages
  • €30
  • Paperback / softback
  • United Kingdom
  • Oral history