Irish global migration and memory: transnational perspectives of Ireland's Famine exodus

Abstract

This introduction to the special issue explains how the intersections between memory, diaspora, and identity formation are addressed in six articles which focus on the Irish Famine diaspora around the Atlantic and the Pacific rim. It argues for a comparative, transnational approach toward the collective experiences of the Famine Irish in terms of their community and institution building; cultural, ethnic, and racial encounters with members of other groups; and especially their patterns of mass migration, integration, and remembrance of their traumatic upheaval by their descendants and host societies.

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