We have a range of resources to help you find out more about the Irish Voices project and the Irish community in London. Our timeline and map are a great place to start.
There are lots of primary materials to explore from the 5 decades of parades and festivals. See our gallery for our collection of newspaper cuttings (hyperlink), brochures (hyperlink), publications (hyperlink), and much more (hyperlink to general materials gallery section).
For more indepth knowledge of the parade and festival as well as a wider understanding of the Irish community in Britain, check out our Bibliography and helpful web links below.
Bibliography & Online Resources
Beiner, G., and Bryson, A., “Listening to the Past and Talking to Each Other: Problems and Possibilities Facing Oral History in Ireland” in Irish Economic and Social History, No. 30, 2003, pp. 71-78.
Bornat, J. and Diamond, H., ‘Women’s history and oral history: developments and debates’, Women’s History Review, 16, 1, (2007), 19–39
Campbell, S. ‘“What’s the Story?”: Rock Biography, Musical “Routes” and the Second-generation Irish in England’ in Irish Studies Review 12:1 (2004) 63-75
Coogan, T. (2000) ‘Introduction’ in Wherever Green is Worn: The Story of the Irish Diaspora, London: Hutchinson, ix-xviii
Cronin, M. and Adair, D. (2002) The wearing of the Green: A History of St. Patrick’s Day, London: Routledge
Dawson, G., (2007) Making Peace with the Past? Memory, Trauma and the Irish Troubles. Palgrave Macmillan: London
Delaney, E., (2007) The Irish in Post-War Britain, Oxford: Oxford University Press
Dixon, P. (2006) Performing the Northern Ireland peace process on the world stage. Political Science Quarterly, 121 (1), pp. 61-91
Harte, L. (2003) ‘“Somewhere beyond England and Ireland”: Narratives of “Home” in Second-generation Irish Autobiography’ in Irish Studies Review 11:3 293-305
Fahey, P. (1991) The Irish in London: Photographs and Memories, London: Centerprise
Fanning, C., (2000), New Perspectives on the Irish Diaspora, Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press
Freund, A. and Thomson A., (2011) eds. Oral History and Photography (Palgrave Studies in Oral History), Palgrave Macmillan, New York
Gray, B., (2004) Women and the Irish Diaspora, London: Routledge
Harrison, G., (2004) The scattering: a history of the London Irish Centre, 1954-2004. London: London Irish Centre
Hickman, M., Morgan, S. and Walter B.,(2001) Second-generation Irish people in Britain: a demographic socio-economic and health profile: a research report for the DION committee, London Irish Studies Centre: University of North London
Hickman, Mary J. (1995), Race, Class and Identity, Aldershot: Avebury
Leavey, Gerard, Semi Sembhi and Gill Livingston. ‘Older Irish Migrants Living in London: Identity, Loss and Return’ in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 30:4 (July 2004) 763-779
Leavy, Patricia, Oral History. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2011
London Irish Women’s Centre, (1993) Roots and Realities: a profile of Irish women in London, London Irish Women’s Centre
MacRaild, D. (2011), The Irish Diaspora in Britain, 1750-1939, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
Murray, Tony, (2012), ‘The Irish in London’ in London Irish Fictions: Narrative, Diaspora and Identity, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press 21-41
Murray, T., (2011), ‘A Diasporic Vernacular?: The Narrativization of Identity in Second Generation Irish Memoir’, in Irish Review, 44, Winter 2011
Murray, T., (2005), ‘Navvy Narratives: Interactions between Fictional and Autobiographical Accounts of Irish Construction Workers in Britain’ in Harte, L., Whelan, Y. and Crotty, P. (eds) Ireland: Space, Text, Time, Dublin: Liffey Press
Nagle, John. ‘“Everybody is Irish on St. Paddy’s”: Ambivalence and Alterity at London’s St. Patrick’s Day 2002’ in Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power 12.4, October–December 2005, 563-83
Redmond, Jennifer. ‘”Sinful Singleness? Exploring the Discourses of Irish Single Women’s Emigration to England, 1922-48’ in Women’s History Review, 17:3 (July 2008) 455-76
Ritchie, Donald A. (Ed.), (2011), The Oxford Handbook of Oral History. Oxford University Press, Oxford
Ryan, L. (2004) ‘Family matters: (e)migration, familial networks and Irish women in Britain’ in Sociological Review 52:3 351-70
Scully, M. (2015) The Problem of a Subjective Authenticity and the Articulation of Belonging among the Irish in England – a Psychosocial Approach. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 12 (1) 34-44.
Scully, M. (2013). BIFFOs, jackeens and Dagenham Yanks: county identity, “authenticity” and the Irish diaspora. Irish Studies Review, 21(2), 143-163
Scully, M. (2012). Local Spaces, Liminality and Authenticity: The Case of the Irish Diaspora in England. In R. Kenedy, M. Greenfields, J. Rollins & S. P. Gabriel (Eds.), Diasporic Identities and Spaces Between (pp. 117-146). Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press.
Scully, M. (2012) “Whose Day Is It Anyway? St. Patrick’s Day as a Contested Performance of National and Diasporic Irishness.” Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, 12(1), 118-135.
Scully, M. (2012) “The tyranny of transnational discourse: ‘authenticity’ and Irish diasporic identity in Ireland and England’. Nations & Nationalism, 18, 2, 191-209.
Website Resources
City of London Metropolitan Archive
Archive of the Irish in Britain, Irish Studies Centre, London Metropolitan Archive
https://metranet.londonmet.ac.uk/irishstudiescentre/archive-of-the-irish-in-britain/archive_home.cfm
London Irish Centre
http://www.londonirishcentre.org
Greater London Authority
http://www.london.gov.uk/mayor-assembly/gla
Greater London Authority – Events
http://www.london.gov.uk/get-involved/events/st-patrick-s-day-parade-and-festival-2015
Brent Archives
Haringey Council Archives
British Library, Oral History Resources
http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelprestype/sound/ohist/ohresources/oralhistoryresources.html
Oral History Society
http://www.ohs.org.uk/index.php
Comhaltas Ceoltórí Eireann
London Irish Feminist Network
https://londonirishfeministnetwork.wordpress.com
The Irish Post
Montserrat
http://www.cavehill.uwi.edu/BNCCde/montserrat/conference/papers/shotte.html
Prevention of Terrorism Act
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/56/contents/enacted
http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/issues/law/pta/ptastats0100.pdf
Irish Wolfhounds
http://www.irishwolfhounds.org/mascots.htm
http://www.irishwolfhounds.org/celt.htm