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The Irish in Leeds, 1931-81 : aspects of emigration
(2004)
Irish emigrants have been settling in Britain in significant numbers since the early nineteenth century. As a result of continued waves of emigration, the Irish constituted the largest ethnic minority in mid-twentieth ...
Victorian Athlone : the struggle to modernise an Irish Provincial Town
(2004)
The Victorian era in the United Kingdom was one of momentous change. Economically, socially and politically a nation was to emerge that was unlike any that had gone before. It was the first truly industrialised nation and ...