
An Unconsidered People
The Irish in London - Updated Edition
Catherine Dunne(Author)
New Island Books (Publisher)
2nd Edition
Published on 22. October 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
296 pages
978-1-84840-822-7 (ISBN)
Description
New updated edition of the seminal work by Catherine Dunne, which charted the multifarious lives of the London Irish, in all their variety and colour, now with a brand new foreword by Diarmaid Ferriter.
Before the 'Ryanair Generation', leaving home was for good. Half a million Irish men and women left these shores in the nineteen-fifties, forced by decades of economic stagnation to make their lives elsewhere. For many of these emigrants, mostly young and unskilled, Britain was their only hope of survival. Abandoned by the Irish state, this forgotten generation went in search of employment and security, the dignity of a future that was denied them at home. For many of these youthful emigrants, exile held the promise of adventure and excitement, freedom from the oppressions of De Valera's Ireland. Yet no two emigrant experiences were the same. In a series of compelling interviews, 'honest, angry, and funny', these vibrant voices reflect the diversity of lives lived away from the homeland, an unconsidered people's struggle to plant new lives in an alien soil.
Before the 'Ryanair Generation', leaving home was for good. Half a million Irish men and women left these shores in the nineteen-fifties, forced by decades of economic stagnation to make their lives elsewhere. For many of these emigrants, mostly young and unskilled, Britain was their only hope of survival. Abandoned by the Irish state, this forgotten generation went in search of employment and security, the dignity of a future that was denied them at home. For many of these youthful emigrants, exile held the promise of adventure and excitement, freedom from the oppressions of De Valera's Ireland. Yet no two emigrant experiences were the same. In a series of compelling interviews, 'honest, angry, and funny', these vibrant voices reflect the diversity of lives lived away from the homeland, an unconsidered people's struggle to plant new lives in an alien soil.
Reviews / Votes
'An outstanding work of aural history ... the book's simplicity is its strength ... store of authentic experience from the lives of an important section of Irish and British society - a section to whom both societies owe a debt of gratitude - the Irish immigrant.' -- Fiona O'Connor * Morning Star *More details
Edition
2. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
Dublin
Ireland
Dimensions
Height: 215 mm
Width: 135 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
383 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84840-822-7 (9781848408227)
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Person
CATHERINE DUNNE is the author of nine previous novels and one work of non-fiction, An Unconsidered People. Her work has been translated into several languages and she was recently long-listed for the inaugural Laureate for Irish fiction. Catherine's tenth novel The Years That Followed was published in March 2016.