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Women and Irish diaspora identities

Women and Irish diaspora identities

Theories, concepts and new perspectives

Edited by D. A. J. MacPherson and Mary J. Hickman

Manchester University Press

Manchester and New York
distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan

Copyright Manchester University Press 2014

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ANIA	Americans for a New Irish Agenda
AOH	Ancient Order of Hibernians
BUF	British Union of Fascists
CICA	Council of Irish Counties Associations
CWL	Catholic Womens League
FLOL	Female Loyal Orange Lodge
GLA	Greater London Authority
GLC	Greater London Council
ILGO	Irish Lesbian and Gay Organisation
INO	Irish Nurses Organisation
IRA	Irish Republican Army
LOBA	Ladies Orange Benevolent Association
LOL	Loyal Orange Lodge
NGO	non-governmental organisation
PFI	Pregnant from Ireland
STDF	Stepney Tenants Defence League
UCM	Union of Catholic Mothers
UCW	Union of Catholic Women

Mary E. Daly is Professor of History and Principal of UCD College of Arts and Celtic Studies. She is the author of many books and articles on the history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Ireland, including Women and Work in Ireland (1997); The Slow Failure: Population Decline and Independent Ireland, 19201973 (2006); The Irish State and the Diaspora (2010).

Breda Gray is Senior Lecturer and Director of the MA in Gender, Culture and Society at the Department of Sociology, University of Limerick, Ireland. She has published widely on themes of gender, migration and diaspora including Women and the Irish Diaspora (Routledge, 2004). She is Principal Investigator for the IRCHSS-funded project The Irish Catholic Church and the politics of migration (www.ul.ie/icctmp) and Co-Principal Investigator on the Government of Ireland, Irish Social Science Platform project Nomadic Work/Life and the Knowledge Economy (http://nwl.ul.ie).

Mary J. Hickman is Professorial Research Fellow at the Centre for Irish Studies, St Marys University, Twickenham, London, and Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Irish Studies at London Metropolitan University. She established the Irish Studies Centre at London Metropolitan University in 1986, where she was also Director of the Institute for the Study of European Transformations from 20022012. Her publications include Migration and Social Cohesion in the UK (co-authored with N. Mai and H. Crowley, Palgrave, 2012). She has been Visiting Professor at: New York University, Columbia University, the New School for Social Research, Victoria University, Melbourne, and University College Dublin. She is Chair of the campaign Votes for Irish Citizens Abroad (VICA) based in London.

S. Karly Kehoe is Lecturer in History at Glasgow Caledonian University. Her research focuses on gender, diaspora, religiosity and ethnicity in nineteenth and twentieth-century Scotland, Ireland and Canada. Her first book, Creating a Scottish Church: Catholicism, Gender and Ethnicity in Nineteenth-Century Scotland was published by Manchester University Press in June 2010.

D. A. J. MacPherson is Lecturer at the Centre for History, University of the Highlands and Islands and, prior to that, was most recently a Research Fellow at the John Hume Institute for Global Irish Studies, University College Dublin. He is currently researching womens associational culture within the Irish diaspora, with a particular focus on women in the Orange Order in Britain and Canada. He has published articles on Irish womens history and the Irish in Britain in Irish Historical Studies, Womens History Review and Immigrants and Minorities. His first book, entitled Women and the Irish Nation, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2012.

Jennifer Redmond is currently CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow and Project Director, The Albert M. Greenfield Digital Center for the History of Womens Education at Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania and was previously Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS) Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2009-2011) at the Department of History, NUI Maynooth. Her doctoral research on Irish womens emigration to Britain in the Free State period was completed at the School of Histories and Humanities, Trinity College Dublin in 2008 and her book on this subject, Moving Histories, is forthcoming. Her current postdoctoral research focuses on citizenship issues and Irish emigrants in Britain during World War Two.

Louise Ryan is Professor of Sociology and Co-Director of the Social Policy Research Centre at Middlesex University. Originally from Cork, she has a PhD in Sociology from University College Cork. She has published widely on varied aspects of migration and has a particular interest in social networks, transnational families and ethnic identities in the context of migration. Louise has under taken research on Irish migrants, Polish migrants and most recently on Muslim migrants and refugees in Britain. Her work has been published in Sociology, Sociological Review, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Journal of Ethnic and Racial Studies and International Migration. Her most recent book is Gendering Migration (co-edited with Wendy Webster, 2008). Louise is a member of the editorial board of Sociology

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