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The Irish In Victorian Britain: The Local Dimension is an informative and compelling collection of essays presenting recent research findings on the experience of Irish men and women , especially with reference the specific Victorian era communities of Birmingham, Camborne, Hull, London, and Stafford, as well as South Wales and the North-East of Britain. The contributors address a wide variety of issues with the entire body of work resulting in a seminal, scholarly, benchmark examination of the Irish experience in Britain during the reign of Queen Victoria.