Irish immigrants and their descendants have made a vital contribution to the creation of modern Scotland. This book is the first collection of essays on the Irish in Scotland for almost twenty years, and brings together for the first time all the leading authorities on the subject. It provides a major reassessment of the Irish immigrant experience and offers social, cultural and religious development of Scotland over the past 200 years.

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface
• List of Contributors
• 1 Irish Catholics in the West of Scotland in the Nineteenth Century: Despised by Scottish workers and controlled by the Church?
• 2 The Great Irish Famine and Scottish History
• 3 Catholic Devotion in Victorian Scotland
• 4 Irish Migrants in the Scottish Episcopal Church in the Nineteenth Century
• 5 Sectarianism, Segregation and Politics in Clydeside in the Later Nineteenth Century
• 6 Shaping the Scottish Past: Irish migrants and local politics in the Monklands in the second half of the nineteenth century
• 7 A Winnowing Spirit: Sinn Féin in Scotland, 1905–38
• 8 ‘Our Country’s Heroes’: Irish Catholics in Scotland and the Great War
• 9 Protestant Action and the Edinburgh Irish
• 10 The Orange Order in Scotland since 1860: A social analysis
• 11 The End of Disadvantage? The descendants of Irish-Catholic immigrants in modern Scotland since 1945
• Notes
• Index