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 very well-written and carefully organized book on a big and
complicated subject... Armed with these kinds of fresh ideas, this
book offers new and exciting perspectives on the history of the
Irish diaspora."--N-Net
"A grand historical tour de force providing great insight into the
role the Irish played in shaping their new homelands... majestic in
scope."
--Catholic News Service
"Engaging and erudite... Connolly covers a huge amount of ground
and pulls together a great array of historical scholarship."--New
York Times
"A masterwork of Irish diaspora history."--Kirkus (starred
review)
"A rich history of the diaspora challenges conventional wisdom --
and captures the emigrant struggle for power and
prosperity."--Sunday Times (UK)
"An absorbing, lucid and sometimes harrowing account."--Daily
Telegraph (UK)
"An impressive... feat of scholarship and research." --Business
Post (Ireland)
"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.
This is a seamless and well-rounded study."--Publishers Weekly
"Impressive, provocative and perception-tilting work... This is an
exhaustive, yet never exhausting, historical account of the
multi-faceted story of the Irish diaspora."--Irish Independent
(Ireland)
"Rich in detail and well researched, this is essential reading for
understanding how the people of Ireland shaped the world."--Belfast
Telegraph (Ireland)
"On Every Tide is a richly detailed, deeply insightful, and
beautifully written panorama of Ireland's history of migration.
Connolly excels in explaining the causes of Irish emigration and
the impact of that mobility on Ireland, the people who left home,
and the societies they helped create. This impressive book
constitutes a major contribution to the new, globally oriented
scholarship on the Irish diaspora."--Malcolm Campbell, University
of Auckland
"On Every Tide is an expert survey of the Irish diaspora from the
seventeenth century to the present day. Elegantly written, highly
accessible, yet carefully researched and wonderfully comprehensive,
the book displays the impressive skills of one of Ireland's
foremost historians. Connolly's masterful contribution to our
understanding of Irish emigration will not only be essential
reading for students of Irish and American history, it will appeal
to anyone interested in how Irish migration impacted the history of
the modern world."
--Robert Savage, Boston College
"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, University College Dublin
"A nuanced overview of Irish migrations, focusing on the
experiences of both Catholic and Protestant Irish in United States,
Great Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and, to a lesser
extent, Argentina. Connolly offers a subtle analysis of the meaning
of 'diaspora' in the context of the varied patterns of Irish
demographics and integration across several societies. On Every
Tide likewise presents shrewd observations on Ireland's
interactions with its far-flung progeny as well as on the changing
nature of what it means to be Irish, whether one lives on the
island or elsewhere. All readers interested in the topics of
international migration, ethnicity, assimilations, and
globalization should put this book on their reading list."--Thomas
J. Archdeacon, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"What a fine book! It has all the virtues one wants in a work of
synthesis. Sean Connolly has read almost everything in print on the
Irish diaspora, and he distills the material in a gentle, generous,
and highly readable fashion--and yet with an engaged and edgy
quality. Thus, several of the myths about the Irish worldwide--such
as that they had an instinctive sympathy with indigenous and
racialized groups--are called into question. On Every Tide is the
ideal place for anyone interested in the Irish diaspora to begin,
and, for those with some previous knowledge, to recalibrate their
compass."--Donald H. Akenson, Queen's University
"In a sweeping historical narrative studded with original insights,
Sean Connolly shows how the great migration of eight million Irish
people prefigured the main patterns of international migration
today. Irish migrants all over the world--roughly half of whom were
women--took on the work that other people wouldn't do, served the
rich, built roads, canals, railroads, and cities, and endured
sustained bigotry for their poverty, their manners, and their
religion. They also plundered indigenous land and reaped the
benefits of being white, Christian, and English-speaking in the
colonized lands where they settled. Elegantly written, compellingly
argued, and genuinely global in scope, On Every Tide is a great
book by one of Ireland's foremost historians."--Kevin Kenny, New
York University
"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
"Three decades ago, President Mary Robinson lit a symbolic candle
in the Irish 'White House' to acknowledge the nation beyond, the
Irish diaspora. But it is only now that we have the
all-encompassing history of that diaspora--across more than three
centuries and over four continents. Connolly's quite remarkable
achievement has been to document that history in a single volume,
to interrogate all its complexities and contradictions, and to
construct a taut narrative that is both intellectually compelling
and superbly crafted."--David Dickson, Trinity College Dublin
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