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Identifying the Irish in Victorian Britain: Recent Trends in Historiography

By reference to over 50 published works (including monographs, contributions to edited collections and journal articles) and several unpublished theses, this essay explores the ways in which the recent historiography of the experiences of Irish migrants in Victorian Britain has revised substantially earlier, monochrome studies of the Irish, which presented them as the outcasts of Victorian society. Whilst acknowledging that this research forms but a small part of the vast body of recent scholarship on the Irish Diaspora of the same period, it shows that recent studies have not only addressed some of the long-standing omissions in the historiography of the subject but have also charted new territories for exploration by emphasising the significance of the themes of change, continuity, resistance and accommodation in the creation of a rich yet diverse migrant culture within which a variety of Irish identities coexisted and sometimes competed.