This book explores the complexities surrounding the self-identity of the Irish in Victorian Britain. It sheds new light on the history of the Irish in Britain, and also on the broader study of the Irish Diaspora and of immigrants and minorities in multicultural societies.

This book was previously published as a special issue of Immigrants and Minorities.

Roger Swift is Emeritus Professor of Victorian Studies at the University of Chester, UK.

Sheridan Gilley is Emeritus Reader in Theology at the University of Durham, UK. They jointly edited The Irish in the Victorian City; The Irish in Britain, 1815-1939 and The Irish in Victorian Britain: The Local Dimension.

1. Identifying the Irish in Victorian Britain: Recent Trends in Historiography 2. The Origins of the Irish in Northern England: An Isonymic Analysis of Data from the 1881 Census 3. Resistance and Respectability: Dilemmas of Irish Migrant Politics in Victorian Britain 4. The Making of an Irishman: John Ferguson and the Politics of Identity in Victorian Glasgow 5. William O'Brien, M.P.: The Metropolitan and International Dimensions of Irish Nationalism 6. English Catholic Attitudes to Irish Catholics 7. Irish Episcopalians in the Scottish Episcopalian Diocese of Glasgow & Galloway during the Nineteenth Century 8. Strangers on the inside: Irish Domestic Servants in England, 1881 9. 'A source of sad annoyance': The Irish and Crime in South Wales, 1841-1881 10. 'An Irish Power in London': making it in the Victorian Metropolis 11. A Conundrum of Irish Diasporic Identity: Mutative Ethnicity