Research/History

Yorkshire Irish Hub - Research & History

The Irish diaspora in Britain: Irish contribution to life in Britain
https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CDP-2022-0055/CDP-2022-0055.pdf

The Irish in England (1): https://eprints.lse.ac.uk/115497/1/WP_342.pdf
The Irish in England (2): https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/irish-england
Wikipedia: Irish in Britain: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_people_in_Great_Britain

Batley West Yorkshire
A Potted Early History of the Irish in Batley, the Building of St Mary of the Angels Church, and the Parish Priest’s Fatal Accident
https://pasttopresentgenealogy.co.uk/one-place-study-batley-st-mary-of-the-angels-catholic-church-war-memorial/general-parish-information/a-potted-early-history-of-the-irish-in-batley-the-building-of-st-mary-of-the-angels-church-and-the-parish-priests-tragic-accident/

Batley - St Mary’s War Memorial as the focus
https://pasttopresentgenealogy.co.uk/2020/10/15/announcing-a-new-family-and-local-history-venture/

Bradford
Story of Ellen Joyce https://www.undercliffecemetery.co.uk/about/history/ellen-joyce/#
Castleford - Growing Pains 2: A scandal laid bare – 1850 Cholera deaths https://castlefordhistory.wordpress.com/2013/02/21/growing-pains-2-a-scandal-laid-bare/

Doncaster: Colonialism and class: Irish Migration to Doncaster by Kylie Noble
https://www.heritagedoncaster.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Irish-Migration-Changing-the-Record-1.pdf

Irish Migration to Liverpool and Lancashire in the Nineteenth Century
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/chm/outreach/migration/backgroundreading/migration/

Irish Migration to the North East England: https://co-curate.ncl.ac.uk/irish-migration-to-north-east-england/

The Irish on Tyneside : migration and identity: 304 pages
http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/1710/1/1710.pdf

The West Riding of Yorkshire, 1879-1886, Irish Diaspora Politics:
https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/228566408.pdf

The Irish in early industrial Britain: George Cornewall Lewis's report
https://www.ourmigrationstory.org.uk/oms/the-irish-in-early-industrial-britain-diversity-and-differing-opinions

The Diaspora in Britain Hansard Volume 710: debated on Thursday 17 March 2022
https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2022-03-17/debates/B13B98CE-884F-4F04-A321-58140C2EA97C/IrishDiasporaInBritain?highlight=gypsies

Ireland's Role in the First World War
https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/irelands-role-in-the-first-world-war

National Army Museum: Irish Solders’ Search 1680-1922 https://www.nam.ac.uk/whats-on/irish-soldier-british-army-1680-1922

Irish migrant identity in Yorkshire and Lancashire, 1815-1845 by Mariclaire Langstaff
https://era.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/34942

Out of print books available at PROJECT GUTENBURG
Scanned books to read online or available free to download, search at www.gutenberg.org

Examples:
The White Slaves of England by John C Cobden published 1853 www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/52423

The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) by O'Rourke
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14412

Connaught by Stephen Lucius Gwynn www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43488

Ireland: The People's History of Ireland, Volume 1 (of 2) by John F. Finerty 1846-1908
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67845

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