Death in the Diaspora

British and Irish Gravestones

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

AvNicholas Evans,Angela McCarthy,University of Hull.) Evans, Nicholas (Lecturer in Diaspora History,University of Otago) McCarthy, Angela (Professor

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As British and Irish migrants sought new lives in the Caribbean, Asia, North America and Australasia, they left a trail of physical remains where settlement occurred. Between the 17th and 20th centuries, gravestones and elaborate epitaphs documented identity and attachment to their old and new worlds. This book expands upon earlier examination of cultural imperialism to reveal how individuals, kinship groups and occupational connections identified with place and space over time. With analyses based on gravestones and memorial markers in the UK and Ireland, Australasia, Asia, Africa and the Americas, the contributors explore how this evidence can inform 21st-century ideas about the attachments that British and Irish migrants had to 'home' in both life and death. Nicholas J. Evans is Lecturer in Diaspora History at the University of Hull. Angela McCarthy is Professor of Scottish and Irish History and Director of the Centre for Global Migrations at the University of Otago.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2022-08-25
Mått156 x 234 x 19 mm
Vikt370 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieStudies in British and Irish Migration
Antal sidor232
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781474473798

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1.Introduction: Death in the diaspora: British and Irish gravestones Nicholas J. Evans and Angela McCarthy2. Forgetting and remembering: Ulster Scots memorials in Ulster, North America and Australia Harold Mytum3. Imposing identity: Death markers to ‘English’ people in Barbados, 1627-1838 Nicholas J. Evans4. Looking for thistles in stone gardens: The cemeteries of Nova Scotia’s Scottish immigrantsLaurie Stanley-Blackwell and Michael Linkletter5. Scottish headstones in Ceylon in comparative perspective Angela McCarthy6. Irish memorialisation in South Australia, 1850-1899 Janine McEgan7. Memorialising the diasporic Cornish Philip Payton8. Documents in stone: Records of lives and deaths of Scots abroad and in Scotland John M. MacKenzie9. Conclusion Angela McCarthy and Nicholas J. Evans

The volume is likely to be/prove of interest to those from a variety of backgrounds – not only scholars of death studies but also those interested in national and diasporic identities and historians of the British Empire, while it is equally approachable for genealogists and family historians. The collection of studies raises wider issues of what it means to be British and Irish today and provides a stepping stone for similar work exploring expressions of identity by different ethnic groups moving within and migrating into Britain.

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