Table of Contents

• List of tables
• List of figures
• Acknowledgements
• Glossary of Irish terms
• List of abbreviations
• Introduction
• 1. Perspectives on Irish migration
• 2. The interwar years, 1921-1939
• 3. Enter the state, 1940-1946
• 4. Postwar exodus, 1947-1957
• 5. Migration and return, 1958-1971
• Conclusion
• Appendices
• Bibliography
• Index

Reviews

This substantive study of Irish migration to Britain during the middle decades of the twentieth century succeeds in filling an important gap in the Irish experience…Delaney has produced an indispensable contribution to the ongoing debate in Irish diaspora studies.
*History*

Exhaustive, well written, thoroughly researched, and wider-ranging than might be inferred from the title…
*International History Review*

…this is excellent comparative British and Irish history as well as a major contribution to migration studies. The depth of scholarship and the range of sources make this quite the best book on the subject: it is certainly the best history of Irish migration to twentieth-century Britain
*Irish Studies Review*

A sophisticated analysis…likely to remain the standard work in the field for years to come.
*Twentieth Century British History*

This splendid book is essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand the phenomenon of Irish migration to Britain since the birth of the Irish Free State in 1921…This book is recommended, unreservedly, to all interested in Irish emigration history.
*Labour/Le Travail*