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Bringing to light fascinating evidence such as letters, interviews, questionnaires and shipboard journals, together with more traditional documentary sources such as immigration files and maritime records, this book examines the experience of Irish and Scottish migrants between 1921 and 1965 in North America and Australasia. Despite a number of peculiarities characterising their individual and collective experiences of migration, both the Irish and Scots were relatively successful migrants in the period under consideration. Through a close reading of personal testimonies the author highlights the assorted similarities and differences between the Irish and Scots. Subtle differences rather than yawning cultural gaps are apparent; similarities in attitude and expectation are more common than divergent or unique experience. Based around personal narratives, the book portrays individual migration experiences which are often hidden in studies based on statistical analysis. Considering individual and collective memory, the uniqueness and typicality of personal testimonies and their use as historical evidence, and incorporating both spoken and written interviews, this study tackles issues of why and how versions of the past are represented and what they mean.
This is an excellent volume - one of the most coherent and consistently engaging edited collections I have read in quite some time. A stimulating volume on a theme of immense importance to the historiography of the Revolution. --Professor Darrin McMahon, The Ben Weider Professor of History, Florida State University
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