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Book review of Leaving the North : migration and memory, Northern Ireland 1921–2011 by Johanne Devlin Trew
journal contribution
posted on 2014-09-29, 10:16 authored by Marc Donnchadh ScullyJohanne Devlin Trew’s
recent
book on migration from Northern Ireland is that increasingly rare thing
in Irish diaspora studies: research that addresses a genuinely glaring gap in the literature. As she
points out, there has been a relative silence with regard to migration and diaspora
in relation to
Northern Ireland on the part of both policy
-
makers and academics.
The neglect of the ‘Northern
diaspora’ on the political stage
since the outbreak of the Troubles
ma
y be considered
understandable,
and Trew goes into some details as to the l
ikely political motivations involve
d.
T
he
academic neglect of the topic is rather harder to fathom. Trew attributes this
to
compartmentalisation in social scientific research on the North,
and a ‘partitionist’ approach in the
study of 20
th
century Irish mi
gration (p.6). She argues that the complications
arising from dealing
with data from two national jurisdictions has led to a concentration in the literature on migration
from the Republic, with the consequence that authorities in the North could label emig
ration as ‘a
Southern problem’, and that pre
-
1922 Irish migration is now wrongly seen through a partitionist
lens.
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Book review of Leaving the North : migration and memory, Northern Ireland 1921–2011 by Johanne Devlin Trew, Liverpool, Liverpool University Press, 2013, SBN 978184631940, In Irish Studies Review, 2014, pp. 1-3Author affiliation
/Organisation/COLLEGE OF ARTS, HUMANITIES AND LAW/School of HistoryVersion
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Book review of Leaving the North : migration and memoryPublisher
Taylor & Francis for British Association for Irish Studiesissn
0967-0882eissn
1469-9303Copyright date
2014Available date
2016-02-20Publisher DOI
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http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09670882.2014.951509#.VCksnRY0-E8Notes
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