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'This work is a refreshing analysis of the Irish in England that keeps the Irish people themselves in the foreground. [...] an original piece of work that sheds new light on the emotional and psychological aspects of Irish migrant life in England during this period. Hazley deserves credit for keeping the individual at the centre of an analysis where broad themes such as emigration, assimilation, and gender are explored, while also managing to emphasize wider patterns experienced by the Irish migrant community as a whole.'
Twentieth Century British History
Introduction: Myth, memory and emotional adaption: the Irish in post-war England and the ‘composure’ of migrant subjectivities
1 Narratives of exit: the public meanings of emigration and the shaping of emigrant selves in post-war Ireland, 1945-69
2 In-between places: liminality and the dis/composure of migrant femininities in the post-war English city
3 Lives in re/construction: myth, memory and masculinity in Irish men’s narratives of work in the British construction industry
4 Falling away from the Church? Negotiating religious selfhoods in post-1945 England
5 Nothing but the same old story? Otherness, belonging and the processes of migrant memory
Conclusion: Myth, memory and minority history
Appendix: Interviews
Select bibliography
Index