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  Article

  What's in a Name: The Dialectics of Diaspora and Irish Emigration
  

  Author(s):

  David Lloyd

  Abstract:

  The sudden, if predictable, transformation of Ireland from its brief moment as an island of immigrants back into what for so long it always was, a nation of emigrants, demands the re-interrogation of a term that for a brief time came to seem a natural way to address Ireland’s global migrations. The application of the term diaspora to people of Irish descent living outside Ireland is, after all, of relatively recent date and replaces a term that has been quite resonant in the Irish vocabular…

  Date Published:

  2013-04