Most historians who have written about the British working class during the late 19th and 20th centuries have emphasized the increasing importance of class consciousness. Outside the sectarian redoubts of Liverpool and Glasgow, they assume that this sense of class had largely transcended the remnants of a separate Irish Catholic ethnic identity by 1914. Steven Fielding challenges such a view. He argues that in many of Britain's industrial towns and cities, in the very heart of working-class culture, a distinctive Irish Catholic ethnic consciousness lived on up to and beyond the Second World War. He reveals the resulting tensions within this consciousness by focusing on the experience of Manchester's large Irish Catholic population. This demonstrates in vivid human detail the particularity of the Irish Catholic experience in urban England.
- ISBN10 0335099939
- ISBN13 9780335099931
- Publish Date 1 November 1992
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 8 February 2000
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Open University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 192
- Language English