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dc.contributor.authorRedmond, Jennifer
dc.date.accessioned2022-09-16T08:11:32Z
dc.date.available2022-09-16T08:11:32Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/58414
dc.description.abstractMoving Histories is an original and enlightening book which details the lives of women who left Ireland after independence. Drawing on a wide range of archival material, this book traces new narratives to bring original insights into the migration of thousands of Irish women in the twentieth century. Despite having a strong tendency to leave Ireland like men, women’s migration to Britain has been less well studied. Yet Irish women could be found in all walks of life in Britain, from the more familiar fields of nursing and domestic service to teaching, factory work and more. This fascinating study also considers the public commentary made about Irish women from the pulpit, press and politicians, who thought the women to be flighty, in need of guidance and prone to moral failures away from home. The repeated coverage of the ‘emigrant girl’ in government memos and journals gave the impression Irish women were leaving for reasons other than employment. Moving Histories argues that the continued focus on Irish unmarried mothers in Britain was based on genuine concerns and a real problem, but such women were not representative. They were, rather, an indictment of the conservative socio-cultural environment of an Ireland that suppressed open discourse of sexuality and forced women to ‘hide their shame’ in institutions at home and abroad.en_US
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European historyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeologyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day::3MP 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999en_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues::JBFH Migration, immigration and emigrationen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::5 Interest qualifiers::5P Relating to specific groups and cultures or social and cultural interests::5PB Relating to peoples: ethnic groups, indigenous peoples, cultures and other groupings of people::5PBC Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoplesen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSF Gender studies, gender groups::JBSF1 Gender studies: women and girlsen_US
dc.subject.otherIreland, migration, twentieth-century history, women emigrantsen_US
dc.titleMoving Historiesen_US
dc.title.alternativeIrish Women’s Emigration to Britain from Independence to Republicen_US
dc.typebook
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy4dc2afaf-832c-43bc-9ac6-8ae6b31a53dcen_US
oapen.relation.isFundedByd6d59e6c-21b5-4da1-880d-2a07fe5184a7en_US
oapen.relation.isbn9781786941671en_US
oapen.relation.isbn9781789620191en_US
oapen.pages296en_US
oapen.place.publicationLiverpoolen_US
oapen.remark.publicFunder name: Maynooth University Library


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