Leaving the North by Johanne Devlin Trew - 9781846319402

Leaving the NorthMigration and Memory, Northern Ireland 19212011\nAuthor(s): Johanne Devlin Trew\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Liverpool University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Liverpool University Press\nISBN-13: 9781846319402, 978-1846319402\nSynopsis\nLeaving the North is the first book that provides a comprehensive survey of Northern Ireland migration since 1921. Based largely on the personal memories of emigrants who left Northern Ireland from the 1920s to the 2000s, approximately half of whom eventually returned, the book traces their multigenerational experiences of leaving Northern Ireland and adapting to life abroad, with some later returning to a society still mired in conflict. Contextualised by a review of the statistical and policy record, the emigrants stories reveal that contrary to its well-worn image as an inward-looking place 'such narrow ground' Northern Ireland has a rather dynamic migration history, demonstrating that its people have long been looking outwar.