British and Irish Emigrants and Exiles in Europe, 1603-1688

This book comprises the first full-length comparison of Scottish, Irish, English and Welsh migration within Europe in the early modern period. Divided into four sections - 'Immigrants and Civilian Life', 'Diplomats and Travellers', 'Protestants and Patrons' and 'Catholics at Home and Abroad' - it offers a new perspective on several themes. Contributors elucidate networks of traders, soldiers, as well as scholars and religious figures. Material regarding patterns of residence (sometimes of the nature of an enclave, sometimes not), places of worship, choice of marital partners, and cases of return migration, is presented, the results demonstrating clearly the fruitfulness of pursuing a comparative approach to seventeenth-century British and Irish history. Contributors are Waldemar Kowalski, Peter Davidson, Douglas Catterall, Steve Murdoch, Ciaran O'Scea, Eamon O Ciosain, Igor Perez Tostado, Kathrin Zickermann, Barry Robertson, Siobhan Talbott, Polona Vidmar, David J.B. Trim, Tom McInally, Thomas O'Connor and Caroline Bowden.

Review:

...There are clearly dangers with any edited collection. Are the papers commissioned? Are the contributors self-generating? Do the papers cohere, but nevertheless do they cover a range of possible areas of exploration? Worthington's introduction is a master-class in exploring the topic in its widest sense and laying out the problematics...This then, is a striking and thought-provoking examination of the questions raised by Worthington... Sarah Barber in Northern Scotland, Volume 5, Page 115-118 DOI 10.3366/nor.2014.0078, May 2014. British and Irish Emigrants and Exiles in Europe, 1603-1688, is certainly a useful addition to the historiography of the British and Irish diaspora in the seventeenth century. The editor is to be commended for trying to include England and Wales into a field where the Irish IRSS 35 (2010) 181 and Scots have dominated in recent years. John Sherry, University of Guelph in IRSS 35 (2010) pp. 179-182