The Literature of the Irish in Britain
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The Literature of the Irish in Britain

Autobiography and Memoir, 1725-2001

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The Literature of the Irish in Britain

Autobiography and Memoir, 1725-2001

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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.

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2009
ISBN
9780230234017
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
European Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. Map
  5. Introduction: Migration and Autobiographical Authorship
  6. Editorial Note
  7. 1 The Merry Wanderer (1725)
  8. 2 Memoirs of Mrs Laetitia Pilkington, Wife to the Reverend Mr Matthew Pilkington, Written by Herself (1748)
  9. 3 Recollections of the Life of John Binns: twenty-nine years in Europe and fifty-three in the United States (1854)
  10. 4 'Fifty Years' Experience of an Irish Shoemaker in London' (1869)
  11. 5 The Life and Adventures of a Limb of the Law (1836)
  12. 6 The Autobiography of a Beggar Boy (1855)
  13. 7 Memoirs of Jane Jowitt, the Poor Poetess, Aged 74 Years, Written by Herself (1844)
  14. 8 'Life of an Irish Tailor, Written by Himself' (1857)
  15. 9 The Reminiscences of Robert Crowe, the Octogenerian Tailor (1902)
  16. 10 Recollections of William Hammond, A Glasgow Hand-Loom Weaver (1904)
  17. 11 Extraordinary Confessions of a Female Pickpocket (1850)
  18. 12 'Memoir' (1912)
  19. 13 The Story of an Irishman (1904)
  20. 14 Jim Blake’s Tour from Clonave to London (1867)
  21. 15 The Life of Frances Power Cobbe by Herself (1894)
  22. 16 The Life Story of an Old Rebel (1910)
  23. 17 Memoirs and Medleys: The Autobiography of a Bottle-Washer (1934)
  24. 18 Reveries over Childhood and Youth (1916)
  25. 19 My Struggle for Life (1916)
  26. 20 The Story of a Toiler's Life (1921)
  27. 21 The Hard Road to Klondike (1962)
  28. 22 'Ireland in London – Reminiscences' (1921)
  29. 23 At Scotland Yard: Being the Experiences during Twenty-Seven Years' Service of John Sweeney (1904)
  30. 24 'Reminiscences of "Casey"' (1931)
  31. 25 Adventures of an Irish Girl at Home and Abroad (1906)
  32. 26 My Story (1945)
  33. 27 Myself – and Others: An Autobiography (1944)
  34. 28 Pictures and Conversations (1975)
  35. 29 A Bolton Childhood (1973)
  36. 30 Hyde Park Orator (1934)
  37. 31 Children of the Dead End: The Autobiography of a Navvy (1914)
  38. 32 The Name's Phelan: The First Part of the Autobiography of Jim Phelan (1948)
  39. 33 Heat the Furnace Seven Times More (1967)
  40. 34 The Autobiography of a Liverpool Irish Slummy (1934)
  41. 35 Saintly Billy: A Catholic Boyhood (1988)
  42. 36 'The Wild Freshness of Morning' (1978)
  43. 37 The Silver Fleece: An Autobiography (1936)
  44. 38 A Chronicle of Jails (1917)
  45. 39 An Irish Childhood (1963)
  46. 40 The Strings Are False: An Unfinished Autobiography (1965)
  47. 41 With O'Leary in the Grave (1986)
  48. 42 Rose and Crown (1952)
  49. 43 A Plain Tale from the Bogs (1937)
  50. 44 The Threshold (1958)
  51. 45 Memories of the Long Distance Kiddies (1994)
  52. 46 'Autobiography' (1987)
  53. 47 The Yellow Rock (1950)
  54. 48 An Irishman's England (1937)
  55. 49 An Ulsterwoman in England, 1924–1941 (1942)
  56. 50 Hello, Is It All Over? (1984)
  57. 51 Memoirs of a Revolutionary (1975)
  58. 52 Three Villages: An Autobiography (1977)
  59. 53 Technical Virgins (1998)
  60. 54 Self-Portrait (1964)
  61. 55 An Irish Navvy: The Diary of an Exile (1964)
  62. 56 Apple on the Treetop (1980)
  63. 57 Galloway Street: Growing Up Irish in Scotland (2001)
  64. 58 The Grass Arena: An Autobiography (1988)
  65. 59 Out of Our Minds (1994)
  66. 60 Is That It? (1986)
  67. 61 The Falling Angels: An Irish Romance (1999)
  68. 62 'Blockley, Gloucestershire' (1981)
  69. 63 'Catford' (1993)
  70. List of Primary Works
  71. Select Bibliography
  72. Index