Sean Connolly is professor of Irish history (emeritus) and visiting research fellow at the Institute of Irish Studies at Queen's University Belfast. He is the author of five books, including Contested Island and Divided Kingdom, and was general editor of The Oxford Companion to Irish History. Born in Dublin, he lives in Belfast.
A richly detailed, scholarly and challenging history of the Irish
diaspora.... challenges conventional wisdom - and captures the
emigrant struggle for power and prosperity
*Sunday Times*
A brilliant and thorough account of a formative part of the Irish
experience... [Connolly] brings to this, his first work of popular
history, the same ability to describe his subjects in their own
terms
*Tablet*
An absorbing, lucid and sometimes harrowing account
*Daily Telegraph*
A masterwork of Irish diaspora history and immigration studies
*Kirkus*
Rich in detail and well researched, this is essential reading for
understanding how the people of Ireland shaped the world
*Belfast Telegraph*
'An impressive [...] feat of scholarship and research
*Business Post*
One of the great migrations in history... Sean Connolly, an expert
in the field, offers an accessible and impressively lucid
overview
*Literary Review*
Impressive, provocative and perception-tilting... This is an
exhaustive, yet never exhausting, historical account of the
multi-faceted story of the Irish diaspora... For Irish history
buffs, it's indispensable
*Irish Independent*
Stylish and lucid, this intrepid and provocative book traces in a
manner at once bold and nuanced the movements of Irish migrants
across space and time over the past two centuries. Sean Connolly is
alert to the complex fate of victims, exploiters, soldiers of
fortune or the merely footloose, who used the wide world to explore
themselves. In his analysis, imaginative audacity is tempered only
by sound scholarly scruple. A work of unprecedented synthesis which
is magisterial and informed, yet whose challenge to conventional
wisdom will generate animated debate for years to come.
*Declan Kiberd, University of Notre Dame*
On Every Tide, is the first comprehensive history of the Irish
diaspora from pre-famine times to the present. This remarkable
book, which is both readable and scholarly, ranging from North
America and Britain to South America, Australia, New Zealand and
South Africa, highlights the diversity of the Irish diaspora:
Protestant and Catholic, unionist and nationalist, and their
different experiences in the places where they settled.
*Mary E. Daly, professor at University College Dublin*
Connolly draws on an impressive array of primary evidence,
including census records, personal testimonies, and popular
fiction, without getting bogged down in statistics and minutiae...
a seamless and well-rounded study
*Publishers Weekly*
Wide-ranging... based on Sean Connolly's long-standing research and
takes us from the grim realities of the famine years through to the
present day... bringing the story full circle
*Family Tree Magazine*
A provocative and at times audacious challenge to this [narrative],
Connolly examines the complexity of Irish identity and reassesses
the lived experience of Irish immigrants... He doesn't pull his
punches
*Irish Examiner*
Connolly employs extensive research to weave an engaging account of
emigration from Ireland... an authoritative but accessible and
illuminating read
*Who Do You Think You Are Magazine*
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