Medieval
After the End of Roman rule in Britain, significant Irish settlement of western Britain took place.
The Déisi recorded as having founded the Gwynedd (Anglesea) … 展开

Seasonal workers
Prior to the 19th century, much of Irish migration of the modern period had been large-scale movement of … 展开

Catholic Church
The large-scale migration of Irish people to Britain in the 19th century contributed to the reemergence of the 展开

Health
A 2009 study published in Ethnicity & Health demonstrated that the grouping self-reported higher rates … 展开

Irish in England
In 2001, there were 674,786 people in England (1.4 per cent of the population) who had been born in Ireland. This is the greatest concentration of … 展开

Effect on the British trade union movement
In 1870, Karl Marx examined how the migration of Irish labour into the British labour market caused significant problems for the nascent English trade union movement since an over-supply of workers enabled … 展开

2001 Census
The 2001 UK census was the first which allowed British citizens to identify an Irish ethnicity. In all previous … 展开