ABSTRACT Since the 1970s, case-studies have highlighted specific local contexts which informed variegated Irish migrant experience across nineteenth-century Britain. This article scrutinises how the Catholic Irish in Preston navigated their host society. Especially in public and organisational expressions of religion and politics, the Preston Irish were unusually closely connected to their host community. Preston’s unusual confessional demographics and multifaceted political contestation offered the Catholic Irish opportunities for meaningful interventions in local society. Situating this case-study comparatively, this article posits four key interlinking factors shaping migrants’ experiences of a nineteenth-century town: its size, broader immigration patterns, confessional composition, and labour politics.

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在孤立与融合之间：宗教、政治和普雷斯顿的天主教爱尔兰人，C.1829-1868

摘要 自 1970 年代以来，案例研究强调了特定的当地环境，这些环境为 19 世纪英国的爱尔兰移民经历提供了信息。这篇文章仔细研究了普雷斯顿的天主教爱尔兰人如何驾驭他们的东道国社会。特别是在宗教和政治的公共和组织表达中，普雷斯顿爱尔兰人与他们的东道社区有着异常密切的联系。普雷斯顿不寻常的忏悔人口统计和多方面的政治争论为天主教爱尔兰人提供了对当地社会进行有意义干预的机会。相对于这个案例研究，本文提出了塑造移民对 19 世纪城镇体验的四个关键的相互关联的因素：它的规模、更广泛的移民模式、忏悔构成和劳工政治。