The literature of the Irish in Britain: autobiography and memoir, 1725-2001

The first critical survey of an unjustly neglected body of literature: the autobiographies and memoirs of writers of Irish birth or background who lived and worked in Britain between 1725 and the present day. It offers a stimulating and provocative introduction to the themes, preoccupations and narrative strategies of a diverse range of writers. INDICE: Acknowledgements - Map - Introduction: Migration and Autobiographical Authorship - Editorial Note - Mary Davys, The Merry Wanderer (1725) - Laetitia Pilkington, Memoirs of Laetitia Pilkington, Wife to the Reverend Mr Matthew Pilkington, Written by Herself (1748) - John Binns, Recollections of the Life of John Binns: twenty-nine years in Europe and fifty-three in the United States (1854) - John Ob Neil, b Fifty Yearsb Experience of an Irish Shoemaker inLondonb (1869) - Michael Fagg, Life and Adventures of a Limb of the Law (1836) - James Dawson Burn, The Autobiography of a Beggar Boy (1855) - Jane Jowitt,Memoirs of Jane Jowitt, the Poor Poetess, Aged 74 Years, Written by Herself (1844) - J. E., b Life of an Irish Tailor, Written by Himselfb (1857) - Robert Crowe, The Reminiscences of Robert Crowe, the Octogenerian Tailor (1902) - William Hammond, Recollections of William Hammond, A Glasgow Hand-Loom Weaver (1904) - Ellen Ob Neill, Extraordinary Confessions of a Female Pickpocket (1850) - Owen Peter Mangan, b Memoirb (1912) - Justin McCarthy, The Story of an Irishman (1904) - Jim Blake, Jim Blakeb s Tour from Clonave to London (1867) - Frances Power Cobbe, The Life of Frances Power Cobbe by Herself (1894) - John Denvir, The Life Story of an Old Rebel (1910) - Tom Barclay, Memoirs and Medleys: The Autobiography of a Bottle-Washer (1934) - William Butler Yeats, Reveries over Childhood and Youth (1916) - Joseph Keating, My Struggle for Life (1916) -James Mullin, The Story of a Toilerb s Life (1921) - Michael MacGowan, The Hard Road to Klondyke (1962) - Francis Fahy, b Ireland in London b Reminiscencesb (1921) - John Sweeney, At Scotland Yard: Being the Experiences during Twenty-Seven Yearsb Service of John Sweeney (1904) - Walter Hampson, b Reminiscencesof b Caseyb b (1931) - Maureen Hamish, Adventures of an Irish Girl at Home and Abroad (1906) - Patrick Gallagher, My Story (1945) - Annie M. P. Smithson, Myself b and Others: An Autobiography (1944) - Elizabeth Bowen, Pictures and Conversations (1975) - Alice Foley, A Bolton Childhood (1973) - Bonar Thompson, Hyde Park Orator (1934) - Patrick MacGill, Children of the Dead End: The Autobiography of a Navvy (1914) - Jim Phelan, The Nameb s Phelan: The First Part ofthe Autobiography of Jim Phelan (1948) - Patrick McGeown, Heat the Furnace Seven Times More (1967) - Pat Ob Mara, The Autobiography of a Liverpool Irish Slummy (1934) - Bill Naughton, Saintly Billy: A Catholic Boyhood (1988) - Margaret McAloren, b The Wild Freshness of Morningb (1978) - Robert Collis, The Silver Fleece: An Autobiography (1936) - Darrell Figgis, A Chronicle of Jails (1917) - Elizabeth Hamilton, An Irish Childhood (1963) - Louis MacNeice, The Strings are False: An Unfinished Autobiography (1965) - Kevin FitzGerald, With Ob Leary in the Grave (1986) - Sean Ob Casey, Rose and Crown (1952) - Rearden Conner, A Plain Tale from the Bogs (1937) - Michael Stapleton, The Threshold (1958) - John Neary, Memories of the Long Distance Kiddies (c.1994) - Matt McGinn, b Autobiographyb (1987) - Peter Donnelly, The Yellow Rock (1950) - J. S. Collis, An Irishmanb s England (1937) - Nesca A. Robb, An Ulsterwoman in England, 1924-1941 (1942) - Mauyen Keane, Hello, Is It All Over? (1984) - Seán MacStiofáin, Memoirs of a Revolutionary (1975) - Dónal Foley, Three Villages: An Autobiography (1977) - Elaine Crowley, Technical Virgins (1998) - John B. Keane, Self-Portrait (1964) - Dónall Mac Amhlaigh, An Irish Navvy: The Diary of an Exile(1964) - Richard Power, Apple on the Treetop (1980) - John Boyle, Galloway Street: Growing Up Irish in Scotland (2001) - John Healy, The Grass Arena: An Autobiography (1988) - George Ob Brien, Out of Our Minds (1994) - Bob Geldof with Paul Vallely, Is That It? (1986) - John Walsh, The Falling Angels: An Irish Romance (1999) - William Trevor, b Blockley, Gloucestershireb (1981) - DesmondHogan, b Catfordb (1988) - List of Primary Works - Select Bibliography - Index - Select Bibliography - Index

• ISBN: 978-1-4039-4987-5
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 344
• Fecha Publicación: 13/02/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés