Death in the diaspora : British and Irish gravestones /
edited by Nicholas J. Evans and Angela McCarthy.
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, (c)2020.
- 1 online resource : illustrations.
- Studies in British and Irish Migration .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Intro -- Death in the Diaspora -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- The Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Series Editors' Introduction -- 1 Introduction: Death in the Diaspora: British and Irish Gravestones -- 2 Forgetting and Remembering: Scots Ulster and Ulster Scots Memorials in Eighteenth-Century Ulster, Pennsylvania and Nineteenth-century New South Wales -- 3 Imposing Identity: Death Markers to 'English' People in Barbados 1627-1838 -- 4 Looking for Thistles in Stone Gardens: The Cemeteries of Nova Scotia's Scottish Immigrants 5 Scottish Gravestones in Ceylon in Comparative Perspective -- 6 Irish Memorialisation in South Australia, 1850-99 -- 7 Memorialising the Diasporic Cornish -- 8 Documents in Stone: Records of Lives and Deaths of Scots Abroad and in Scotland -- 9 Conclusion -- Index
Pioneering comparative study of how and why migrants from Scotland, Ireland, England and Wales displayed attachment to home on headstones and memorial markers erected across the British World between the 17th and 20th centuries.
9781474473804 9781474491273
British--Funeral customs and rites. Irish--Funeral customs and rites. British--Social conditions.--Foreign countries Irish--Foreign countries--Social conditions. Sepulchral monuments--History.--Great Britain Sepulchral monuments--History.--Ireland Sepulchral monuments--History.--Commonwealth countries Burial--History.--Great Britain Burial--History.--Ireland Burial--History.--Commonwealth countries