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Between isolation and integration: religion, politics, and the Catholic Irish in Preston, C.1829-1868

Abstract:
Since the 1970s, case-studies have highlighted specific local contexts which informed variegated Irish migrant experience across nineteenth-century Britain. This article scrutinises how the Catholic Irish in Preston navigated their host society. Especially in public and organisational expressions of religion and politics, the Preston Irish were unusually closely connected to their host community. Preston’s unusual confessional demographics and multifaceted political contestation offered the Catholic Irish opportunities for meaningful interventions in local society. Situating this case-study comparatively, this article posits four key interlinking factors shaping migrants’ experiences of a nineteenth-century town: its size, broader immigration patterns, confessional composition, and labour politics.
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Published
Peer review status:
Peer reviewed

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10.1080/02619288.2020.1804367

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
HUMS
Sub department:
History Faculty
Oxford college:
St Catherine's College
Role:
Author
ORCID:
0000-0002-7756-8185


Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
Journal:
Immigrants and Minorities More from this journal
Volume:
38
Issue:
1-2
Pages:
77-104
Publication date:
2020-09-06
DOI:
EISSN:
1744-0521
ISSN:
0261-9288


Language:
English
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Pubs id:
1209215
Local pid:
pubs:1209215
Deposit date:
2021-11-11

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