This book offers the first integrated study of the formation of diasporas from the islands of Ireland and Britain, and explores how the examples and experiences of the constituent nations and peoples of those islands compare.

Donald M. MacRaild is Professor of British and Irish History at the University of Roehampton
Tanja Bueltmann is Professor in History at Northumbria University
Jonathan C. D. Clark is Hall Distinguished Professor of British History Emeritus at the University of Kansas

Introduction: British and Irish diasporas: societies, cultures and ideologies - Donald M. MacRaild, Tanja Bueltmann and J. C. D. Clark
1 Reconceptualizing diaspora: religion, persecution and identity in Britain and Ireland, 1558-1794 - J. C. D. Clark
2 Irish Jacobites in early modern Europe: exile, adjustment and experience, 1691-1745 - Éamonn Ó Ciardha
3 Diasporic or distinct? Scots in early modern Europe - Siobhan Talbott
4 An imperial, utopian and 'visible' diaspora: the English since 1800 - Donald M. MacRaild
5 Emigrants and exiles: the political nationalism of the Irish diaspora since the 1790s - David T. Gleeson
6 Partners in Empire: the Scottish diaspora since 1707 - Tanja Bueltmann and Graeme Morton
7 The Welsh diaspora - Donald M. MacRaild and Philip Payton
8 The Cornish diaspora, 1815-1914 - Philip Payton
9 Conclusion: towards integration and comparison? - Donald M. MacRaild, Tanja Bueltmann and J. C. D. Clark
Index