Irish Diaspora

This book brings together a series of articles which provide an overview of the Irish Diaspora from a global perspective. It combines a series of survey articles on the major destinations of the Diaspora; the USA Britian and the British Empire. On each of these there is a number of more specialist articles by historians demographers economists sociologists and geographers. The inter-disciplinary approach of the book with a strong historical and modern focus provides the first comprehensive survey of the topic.