Irish in the Victorian City

<p>First published in 1985, this book explores the social history of the Irish in Britain across a variety of cities, including Bristol, York, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Stockport. With contributions from foremost scholars in the field, it provides a thorough critical study of Irish immigration, in its social, political, cultural and religious dimensions.</p><p>This book will be of interested to students of Victorian history, Irish history and the history of minorities.</p> <p>Notes on Contributors; 1. Introduction <i>Sheridan Gilley and Roger Swift</i> 2. The Irish in Bristol in 1851: A Census Enumeration <i>David Large</i> 3. The Irish in York <i>Frances Finnegan</i> 4. The English Working-Class Radicalism and the Irish, 1815-50 <i>John Belchem</i> 5. Irish Influence on Parliamentary Elections in London, 1885-1914: A Simple Test <i>Alan O’ Day</i> 6. A Tale of Two Cities: Communal Strife in Glasgow and Liverpool before 1914 <i>Tom Gallagher </i>7. A Comparative View of the Irish in Edinburgh in the Nineteenth Century <i>Bernard Aspinwall and John McCaffrey </i>8. The Irish Press in Victorian Britain <i>Owen Dudley Edwards and Patricia J. Storey</i> 9. ‘Another Stafford Street Row’: Law, Order and the Irish Presence in mid-Victorian Wolverhampton <i>Roger Swift </i>10. The Stockport Riots of 1852: A Study of Anti-Catholic and Anti-Irish Sentiment <i>Pauline Millward</i> 11. Irish and Catholic : Myth or Reality? Another Sort of Irish and the Renewal of the Clerical Profession among Catholic in England, 1791-1918 <i>Gerard Connolly</i> 12. Vulgar Piety and the Brompton Oratory, 1850-1860 <i>Sheridan Gilley</i> 13. The Roman Catholic Church and the Irish Poor <i>Raphael Samuel; </i>Select Bibliography <i>Roger Swift and Sheridan Gilley</i>; Select Index</p>