St Patricks Day Parade & Festival - 17Mar13

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We have a range of resources to help you find out more about the Irish Voices project and the Irish community in London. Our timeline and map are a great place to start.

There are lots of primary materials to explore from the 5 decades of parades and festivals. See our gallery for our collection of newspaper cuttings (hyperlink), brochures (hyperlink), publications (hyperlink), and much more (hyperlink to general materials gallery section).

For more indepth knowledge of the parade and festival as well as a wider understanding of the Irish community in Britain, check out our Bibliography and helpful web links below.

Bibliography & Online Resources

Beiner, G., and Bryson, A., “Listening to the Past and Talking to Each Other: Problems and Possibilities Facing Oral History in Ireland” in Irish Economic and Social History, No. 30, 2003, pp. 71-78.

Bornat, J. and Diamond, H., ‘Women’s history and oral history: developments and debates’, Women’s History Review, 16, 1, (2007), 19–39

Campbell, S. ‘“What’s the Story?”: Rock Biography, Musical “Routes” and the Second-generation Irish in England’ in Irish Studies Review 12:1 (2004) 63-75

Coogan, T. (2000) ‘Introduction’ in Wherever Green is Worn: The Story of the Irish Diaspora, London: Hutchinson, ix-xviii

Cronin, M. and Adair, D. (2002) The wearing of the Green: A History of St. Patrick’s Day, London: Routledge

Dawson, G., (2007) Making Peace with the Past? Memory, Trauma and the Irish Troubles. Palgrave Macmillan: London

Delaney, E., (2007) The Irish in Post-War Britain, Oxford: Oxford University Press

Dixon, P. (2006) Performing the Northern Ireland peace process on the world stage. Political Science Quarterly, 121 (1), pp. 61-91

Harte, L. (2003) ‘“Somewhere beyond England and Ireland”: Narratives of “Home” in Second-generation Irish Autobiography’ in Irish Studies Review 11:3 293-305

Fahey, P. (1991) The Irish in London: Photographs and Memories, London: Centerprise

Fanning, C., (2000), New Perspectives on the Irish Diaspora, Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press

Freund, A. and Thomson A., (2011) eds. Oral History and Photography (Palgrave Studies in Oral History), Palgrave Macmillan, New York

Gray, B., (2004) Women and the Irish Diaspora, London: Routledge

Harrison, G., (2004) The scattering: a history of the London Irish Centre, 1954-2004. London: London Irish Centre

Hickman, M., Morgan, S. and Walter B.,(2001) Second-generation Irish people in Britain: a demographic socio-economic and health profile: a research report for the DION committee, London Irish Studies Centre: University of North London

Hickman, Mary J. (1995), Race, Class and Identity, Aldershot: Avebury

Leavey, Gerard, Semi Sembhi and Gill Livingston. ‘Older Irish Migrants Living in London: Identity, Loss and Return’ in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 30:4 (July 2004) 763-779

Leavy, Patricia, Oral History. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2011

London Irish Women’s Centre, (1993) Roots and Realities: a profile of Irish women in London, London Irish Women’s Centre

MacRaild, D. (2011), The Irish Diaspora in Britain, 1750-1939, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

Murray, Tony, (2012), ‘The Irish in London’ in London Irish Fictions: Narrative, Diaspora and Identity, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press 21-41

Murray, T., (2011), ‘A Diasporic Vernacular?: The Narrativization of Identity in Second Generation Irish Memoir’, in Irish Review, 44, Winter 2011

Murray, T., (2005), ‘Navvy Narratives: Interactions between Fictional and Autobiographical Accounts of Irish Construction Workers in Britain’ in Harte, L., Whelan, Y. and Crotty, P. (eds) Ireland: Space, Text, Time, Dublin: Liffey Press

Nagle, John. ‘“Everybody is Irish on St. Paddy’s”: Ambivalence and Alterity at London’s St. Patrick’s Day 2002’ in Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power 12.4, October–December 2005, 563-83

Redmond, Jennifer. ‘”Sinful Singleness? Exploring the Discourses of Irish Single Women’s Emigration to England, 1922-48’ in Women’s History Review, 17:3 (July 2008) 455-76

Ritchie, Donald A. (Ed.), (2011), The Oxford Handbook of Oral History. Oxford University Press, Oxford

Ryan, L. (2004) ‘Family matters: (e)migration, familial networks and Irish women in Britain’ in Sociological Review 52:3 351-70

Scully, M. (2015) The Problem of a Subjective Authenticity and the Articulation of Belonging among the Irish in England – a Psychosocial Approach. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 12 (1) 34-44.
Scully, M. (2013). BIFFOs, jackeens and Dagenham Yanks: county identity, “authenticity” and the Irish diaspora. Irish Studies Review, 21(2), 143-163
Scully, M. (2012). Local Spaces, Liminality and Authenticity: The Case of the Irish Diaspora in England. In R. Kenedy, M. Greenfields, J. Rollins & S. P. Gabriel (Eds.), Diasporic Identities and Spaces Between (pp. 117-146). Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press.
Scully, M. (2012) “Whose Day Is It Anyway? St. Patrick’s Day as a Contested Performance of National and Diasporic Irishness.” Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, 12(1), 118-135.
Scully, M. (2012) “The tyranny of transnational discourse: ‘authenticity’ and Irish diasporic identity in Ireland and England’. Nations & Nationalism, 18, 2, 191-209.

Website Resources

City of London Metropolitan Archive

http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/things-to-do/visiting-the-city/archives-and-city-history/london-metropolitan-archives/Pages/default.aspx

Archive of the Irish in Britain, Irish Studies Centre, London Metropolitan Archive

https://metranet.londonmet.ac.uk/irishstudiescentre/archive-of-the-irish-in-britain/archive_home.cfm

London Irish Centre

http://www.londonirishcentre.org

Greater London Authority

http://www.london.gov.uk/mayor-assembly/gla

Greater London Authority – Events

http://www.london.gov.uk/get-involved/events/st-patrick-s-day-parade-and-festival-2015

Brent Archives

http://brent.gov.uk/archives

Haringey Council Archives

http://www.haringey.gov.uk/community-and-leisure/culture-and-entertainment/visiting-haringey/archives-and-local-history#archives

British Library, Oral History Resources

http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelprestype/sound/ohist/ohresources/oralhistoryresources.html

Oral History Society

http://www.ohs.org.uk/index.php

Comhaltas Ceoltórí Eireann

http://comhaltas.ie

London Irish Feminist Network

https://londonirishfeministnetwork.wordpress.com

The Irish Post

http://www.irishpost.co.uk

Montserrat

http://www.cavehill.uwi.edu/BNCCde/montserrat/conference/papers/shotte.html

Prevention of Terrorism Act

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/56/contents/enacted
http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/issues/law/pta/ptastats0100.pdf

Irish Wolfhounds

http://www.irishwolfhounds.org/mascots.htm
http://www.irishwolfhounds.org/celt.htm

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