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Title Death in the diaspora : British and Irish gravestones / edited by Nicholas J. Evans and Angela McCarthy.

Publication Info. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2020]
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Description 1 online resource : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Studies in British and Irish Migration
Studies in British and Irish migration.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Intro -- Death in the Diaspora -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- The Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Series Editors' Introduction -- 1 Introduction: Death in the Diaspora: British and Irish Gravestones -- 2 Forgetting and Remembering: Scots Ulster and Ulster Scots Memorials in Eighteenth-Century Ulster, Pennsylvania and Nineteenth-century New South Wales -- 3 Imposing Identity: Death Markers to 'English' People in Barbados 1627-1838 -- 4 Looking for Thistles in Stone Gardens: The Cemeteries of Nova Scotia's Scottish Immigrants
5 Scottish Gravestones in Ceylon in Comparative Perspective -- 6 Irish Memorialisation in South Australia, 1850-99 -- 7 Memorialising the Diasporic Cornish -- 8 Documents in Stone: Records of Lives and Deaths of Scots Abroad and in Scotland -- 9 Conclusion -- Index
Summary Pioneering comparative study of how and why migrants from Scotland, Ireland, England and Wales displayed attachment to home on headstones and memorial markers erected across the British World between the 17th and 20th centuries.
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Subject British -- Funeral customs and rites.
British.
Irish -- Funeral customs and rites.
Irish.
British -- Foreign countries -- Social conditions.
British -- Foreign countries.
Social conditions.
Irish -- Foreign countries -- Social conditions.
Irish -- Foreign countries.
Sepulchral monuments -- Great Britain -- History.
Sepulchral monuments.
Great Britain.
History.
Sepulchral monuments -- Ireland -- History.
Ireland.
Sepulchral monuments -- Commonwealth countries -- History.
Commonwealth countries.
Burial -- Great Britain -- History.
Burial.
Burial -- Ireland -- History.
Burial -- Commonwealth countries -- History.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
Added Author Evans, Nicholas J., editor.
McCarthy, Angela, 1971- editor.
Other Form: Print version: Death in the diaspora. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2020] 9781474473804 (OCoLC)1136964029
ISBN 9781474473804 (electronic book)
1474473806 (electronic book)
9781474473781
1474473784

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