About the Author

Kyle Hughes is Senior Research Assistant in History in the School of Arts and Social Sciences at Northumbria University.

Reviews

'Hughes' study not only adds to our understanding of the nineteenth-century Scots diaspora, but speaks to a wider phenomenon of new migrants who arrived to a destination with an already established, even hyphenated, population which claimed the same cultural background. In the case of nineteenth-century Belfast this is complicated further by the emergence of a parallel British identity and the very different relationships of Scotland and Ireland to the British state. That Hughes does this, while at the same time producing a very readable portrait of a migrant community, is of great credit to him.'--Gerard Horn, Church of Ireland College of Education, Dublin "International Review of Scottish Studies"