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Author Wills, Clair.

Title The best are leaving : emigration and post-war Irish culture / Clair Wills, Queen Mary, University of London.

Publication Info. New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
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Description 1 online resource
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Table of contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; Part I Emigrants; Chapter 1 The Best Are Leaving; 'The Survival of the Unfittest'; 'The Moral Aspect of the Problem'; 'The Weakening of Our Nationality'; 'Luxurious Living and Modern Sanitation'; Chapter 2 Pink Witch; Toothpaste and Cosmetics; Toffs and the Poorer Type of Girl; 'Love and Things'; Part II Immigrants; Chapter 3 British Paddies; Ethnography and the Irish Male Immigrant; Turning a Shade Darker; Chapter 4 The Vanishing Irish.
The Deserving and the Undeserving PoorThe Bucklep; 'An Indefinably Natural Quality'; Chapter 5 Clay Is the Flesh; Afterword; Bibliography; Manuscripts; Television, Film and Radio; Newspapers, Journals and Magazines; Published Sources; Index.
Summary Clair Wills's The Best Are Leaving is a study of representations of Irish emigrant culture and of Irish immigrants in Britain.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Irish -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
Irish.
Great Britain.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Irish -- Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Social conditions.
Great Britain -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century.
Emigration and immigration.
Ireland -- Emigration and immigration -- History.
Ireland.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Wills, Clair. Best are leaving 9781107048409 (DLC) 2014020958 (OCoLC)881146265
ISBN 9781316129067 (electronic book)
1316129063 (electronic book)
9781107261372 (electronic book)
1107261376 (electronic book)
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1107048400
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1107680875

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