From the Irish Times: "In the grim 1950s, 40,000 people left Ireland every year to emigrate to Britain. They built the roads and repaired the bombed out buildings of post-war Britain. They staffed the hospitals, the factories and the railways of a booming country while the economy stagnated at Ireland. It is estimated that half of all Irish people born in the 1930s emigrated, the large majority to Britain."
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The Forgotten Irish
The Forgotten Irish In commemoration of that generation of post World War II ...
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Eleanor Jane Chute
She was born as Eleanor Jane Portal on 13 May 1854 in Oakley, Basingstoke, Hampshire, the second daughter and the third of the seven children of Sir William Spencer Portal, 1st Baronet (1822-1905) ...
Eleanor Rathbone
Politician and social reformer. Born Eleanor Florence Rathbone at 14 Prince's Gardens, according to the ODNB, our trusted source; others say Liverpool. She made an extensive study of the position o...
London Irish Centre
The charity provides care, culture and community to the Irish across London, working from the iconic London Irish Centre in Camden Town.
John Passmore Edwards
Political and social reformer, politician, peace activist, and anti-slavery campaigner he became one of the most successful newspaper proprietors of his time. Born in a small Cornish village and ed...
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Norman Harry Harding, OBE
Chairman of of the City Lands and Bridge House Estates Committee in 1982. Commoner on the City Lands & Bridge House Estates Committee, 1994.
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