Enda Delaney: Demography, State and Society, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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The process of migration is associated with longing, homesickness, the shock of exposure to a new culture, and, sometimes, escape and freedom. Between the foundation of the new Irish state in 1921-22 and the early 1970s approximately one and one-half million people left independent Ireland, the vast majority travelling to Britain. Demography, State and Society is the first comprehensive analysis of this exodus. Meticulously researched, using an exhaustive range of previously unused source materials, it provides a detailed examination of the many ways in which migration shaped twentieth-century Irish society.