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One day, when Mary Rose Callaghan was 13, her mother jumped into the freezing Irish Sea. Knowing that her mother was an asthmatic, the shock of seeing her dive into the deep end began Mary Rose s curiosity about her mother s life. That curiosity spawned the writing of this memoir, a coming-of-age tale focused on Mary Rose s relationship with her mother, which endured through economic hardship, and her mother s descent into mental illness and alcoholism. The Deep End begins by tracing her mother s arrival in Ireland in the 1930s, training to be a nurse, and marriage to Mary Rose s father,...

Using cutting-edge academic work on migration and citizenship to address three themes central to current debates - borders and walls, mobility and travel, and belonging - the authors provide new insights into the politics of migration and citizenship in the UK and the US.

This book explores the official 50th anniversary commemorations of the 1916 Easter Rising in the Irish Republic - how the government reinvented the message of 1916 through the jubilee celebrations; the organization of various unofficial commemorations in Northern Ireland; and the significance of these for nationalist and unionist politics in the mid-1960s. The book also examines the 1966 anniversary celebration of the Rising from the perspectives of drama, performance, youth culture, and history.