Rethinking the Irish Diaspora: After The Gathering

Introduction: Gathering Tensions; Johanne Devlin Trew and Michael Pierse. Part I: Policy Contexts and Political Change. 1: Diaspora engagement in Ireland, North and South, in the shadow of Brexit; Johanne Devlin Trew. 2: The Irish government's diaspora strategy: Towards a care agenda; Mark Boyle and Adrian Kavanagh. 3: The need for a national diaspora centre in Ireland; Brian Lambkin. 4: Marriage equality North and South: The journey after The Gathering; Danielle Mackle. Part II: Echoes from History and Irish Imaginaries. 5: Bringing it all back home: the fluctuating reputation of James Orr (1770-1816), Ulster-Scots Poet and Irish Patriot; Carol Baraniuk. 6: Gathering Antipathy: Irish Immigrants and Race in America's Age of Emancipation; Brian Kelly. Part III: Hidden Diasporas. 7: Hidden diasporas:Second and third generation Irish in England and Scotland; Bronwen Walter. 8: Placeless patriots: The misplaced loyalty of The Middle Nation; Ultan Cowley. 9: Rafferty's Return: Diaspora and dislocation in Edna O Brien's Shovel Kings; Tony Murray. 10: "Coeval but out of kilter": diaspora, modernity and 'authenticity' in Irish emigrant worker writing; Michael Pierse. Epilogue; Johanne Devlin Trew and Michael Pierse.