The Irish Diaspora in Comparative Perspective: St. John's, Newfoundland, Halifax, Nova Scotia, and Portland, Maine, 1880-1923

• Main Author: Mannion, Patrick
• Other Authors: McGowan, Mark, History
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Subjects: Irish; Diaspora; Ethnicity; Identity; Canada; United States; Newfoundland; Nova Scotia; Maine; New England; 0334; Yankee
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1807/70108

Whether they settled in Great Britain, the United States, Canada, Australia, or elsewhere, there was no common experience for the Irish abroad. Emigrants from Ireland and their descendants reshaped their ethnic identities in response to circumstances in both the old world and the new. A comparative...