The Literature of the Irish in Britain: Autobiography and Memoir, 1725-2001

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 11
Map......Page 15
Introduction: Migration and Autobiographical Authorship......Page 16
History, textuality, referentiality......Page 22
Themes, motifs, representations......Page 31
The personal dimension......Page 37
Editorial Note......Page 40
1 The Merry Wanderer (1725)......Page 42
2 Memoirs of Mrs Laetitia Pilkington, Wife to the Reverend Mr Matthew Pilkington, Written by Herself (1748)......Page 45
3 Recollections of the Life of John Binns: twenty-nine years in Europe and fifty-three in the United States (1854)......Page 51
4 \'Fifty Years\' Experience of an Irish Shoemaker in London\' (1869)......Page 56
5 The Life and Adventures of a Limb of the Law (1836)......Page 61
6 The Autobiography of a Beggar Boy (1855)......Page 65
7 Memoirs of Jane Jowitt, the Poor Poetess, Aged 74 Years, Written by Herself (1844)......Page 70
8 \'Life of an Irish Tailor, Written by Himself\' (1857)......Page 74
9 The Reminiscences of Robert Crowe, the Octogenerian Tailor (1902)......Page 78
10 Recollections of William Hammond, A Glasgow Hand-Loom Weaver (1904)......Page 83
11 Extraordinary Confessions of a Female Pickpocket (1850)......Page 86
12 \'Memoir\' (1912)......Page 90
13 The Story of an Irishman (1904)......Page 95
14 Jim Blake’s Tour from Clonave to London (1867)......Page 101
15 The Life of Frances Power Cobbe by Herself (1894)......Page 105
16 The Life Story of an Old Rebel (1910)......Page 110
17 Memoirs and Medleys: The Autobiography of a Bottle-Washer (1934)......Page 115
18 Reveries over Childhood and Youth (1916)......Page 120
19 My Struggle for Life (1916)......Page 124
20 The Story of a Toiler\'s Life (1921)......Page 129
21 The Hard Road to Klondike (1962)......Page 133
22 \'Ireland in London – Reminiscences\' (1921)......Page 137
23 At Scotland Yard: Being the Experiences during Twenty-Seven Years\' Service of John Sweeney (1904)......Page 142
24 \'Reminiscences of \"Casey\"\' (1931)......Page 147
25 Adventures of an Irish Girl at Home and Abroad (1906)......Page 152
26 My Story (1945)......Page 156
27 Myself – and Others: An Autobiography (1944)......Page 162
28 Pictures and Conversations (1975)......Page 166
29 A Bolton Childhood (1973)......Page 170
30 Hyde Park Orator (1934)......Page 175
31 Children of the Dead End: The Autobiography of a Navvy (1914)......Page 180
32 The Name\'s Phelan: The First Part of the Autobiography of Jim Phelan (1948)......Page 184
33 Heat the Furnace Seven Times More (1967)......Page 190
34 The Autobiography of a Liverpool Irish Slummy (1934)......Page 194
35 Saintly Billy: A Catholic Boyhood (1988)......Page 199
36 \'The Wild Freshness of Morning\' (1978)......Page 203
37 The Silver Fleece: An Autobiography (1936)......Page 207
38 A Chronicle of Jails (1917)......Page 211
39 An Irish Childhood (1963)......Page 216
40 The Strings Are False: An Unfinished Autobiography (1965)......Page 221
41 With O\'Leary in the Grave (1986)......Page 226
42 Rose and Crown (1952)......Page 229
43 A Plain Tale from the Bogs (1937)......Page 234
44 The Threshold (1958)......Page 239
45 Memories of the Long Distance Kiddies (1994)......Page 243
46 \'Autobiography\' (1987)......Page 248
47 The Yellow Rock (1950)......Page 253
48 An Irishman\'s England (1937)......Page 257
49 An Ulsterwoman in England, 1924–1941 (1942)......Page 260
50 Hello, Is It All Over? (1984)......Page 265
51 Memoirs of a Revolutionary (1975)......Page 270
52 Three Villages: An Autobiography (1977)......Page 275
53 Technical Virgins (1998)......Page 280
54 Self-Portrait (1964)......Page 283
55 An Irish Navvy: The Diary of an Exile (1964)......Page 286
56 Apple on the Treetop (1980)......Page 292
57 Galloway Street: Growing Up Irish in Scotland (2001)......Page 296
58 The Grass Arena: An Autobiography (1988)......Page 300
59 Out of Our Minds (1994)......Page 304
60 Is That It? (1986)......Page 307
61 The Falling Angels: An Irish Romance (1999)......Page 311
62 \'Blockley, Gloucestershire\' (1981)......Page 315
63 \'Catford\' (1993)......Page 319
List of Primary Works......Page 323
Select Bibliography......Page 326
B......Page 330
C......Page 331
D......Page 332
F......Page 333
H......Page 334
K......Page 335
L......Page 336
M......Page 337
O......Page 338
R......Page 339
S......Page 340
W......Page 341
Z......Page 342