Overview

This book brings together a series of articles which provide an overview of the Irish Diaspora from a global perspective.

Content

It combines a series of survey articles on the major destinations of the Diaspora; the USA, Britain and the British Empire.

On each of these, there is a number of more specialist articles by historians, demographers, economists, sociologists and geographers.

Approach and Focus

The inter-disciplinary approach of the book, with a strong historical and modern focus, provides the first comprehensive survey of the topic.