Books written by Mícheál Ó hAodha

  • Irish Migrants in New Communities: Seeking the Fair Land?
    Irish Migrants in New Communities: Seeking the Fair Land?

    Other Leinster emigrants came from Wexford, Kilkenny, Carlow, Kildare, Offaly, Westmeath, and Longford. ... since many Irish families started migrating to the United States, or Western Canada, while French-Canadians began to move in and ...

  • American "outsider": Stories from the Irish Traveller Diaspora
    American "outsider": Stories from the Irish Traveller Diaspora

    Of all of the worldâ (TM)s countries, America is the one that we all think we know. World globalization and the dominance of English language and American idiom makes us...

  • New Perspectives on the Irish Abroad: The Silent People?
    New Perspectives on the Irish Abroad: The Silent People?

    ... when providing personal details some gave an address of next-of-kin in Ireland, but were living abroad themselves. ... Figure from Noreen Branson, History of the Communist Party of Great Britain 1927–1941 (London: Lawrence and ...

  • Voices from the Easter Rising
    Voices from the Easter Rising

    Giving voice once more to the protagonists beyond the pantheon of martyrs, for those seeking an accurate understanding of how the events of Easter Week actually took place, this is essential reading. -- Publisher description

  • Irish Travellers: Representations and Realities
    Irish Travellers: Representations and Realities

    The "Traveler question" has been a major source of debate in Irish society for decades, centuries even, and appears no closer to being answered today. For as long as Travelers...

  • Insubordinate Irish: Travellers in the Text
    Insubordinate Irish: Travellers in the Text

    This book traces a number of common themes relating to the representation of Irish Travelers in Irish popular tradition and how these themes have impacted on Ireland's collective imagination.