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Ireland is a part of the British Isles, though most of it not part of Britain. Remember, they were named long ago by the ancient Greeks when the islands consisted of many entities and the majority inhabitants were Celtic tribespeople called Britons.

Those poor women had to go through hell especially the ones with the drunk husbands

Land Grab and near extinction of the Irish population in certain areas of the Island was callously implemented by the British Government. During the Great Famine, both livestock and grain were exported to England. There was minimal help offered to the poor and starving. The Famine was, in fact little more than ethnic cleansing!

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Amazing how the first few lines this video speaks about renting in London and landlords sounds soooo much like today! Things really have not changed that much...

I thought this was “who do you think you are?” With Micky Flanagan 😂

Can anyone tell me what an after diner cabinet is?

History is repeating itself

Love the videos, using them as dinner company. To think we as a spicies ever survived til today if listening solely to this video, is beyond my comprehension! 😆

Pretty well-fed looking for starving people - compare them to the more common North Korean soldiers working in the country sides out of view mostly..

And it's only gotten worse.

They should bring these back.

Very interesting the link between the Irish potato famine resulting in Irish “ immigration “ to London England, during the Irish potato famine the Irish were part of the United Kingdom, probably the most reluctant members of of that country for sure, so how can you be an immigrant if you move within United Kingdom ? the Irish simply moved from one part of the UK to another they weren’t immigrants as stated, in today’s world there’s a stigma rightly or wrongly towards immigrants, this stigma seems to be a lot of times back-dated nearly 200 years towards the Irish, not in this well presented documentary I may say, apart from “immigrants “

Fantastic woodblock prints. Can you cite the sources for these please? I learned a lot from this documentary. Thank you

The book is fascinating, so much better than the movie

Last part of my research in 1873 local medical officer reported slum lack of lavatories was actually advantage , regarded being medical examiner was simply echoing widely new . Irish poor in general were underage of help , in other word their misery believed to be brought on by their own fall rather than any material misfortune that might have befallen then . Presence of Jennings buildings with population of Irish immigrants and their descendants was viewed by many to pose threat of bringing diseases, disorder, criminal activity to respectable tensions . In year 1873 wealthy individual Albert grant Irish migrant , but banker , friend of royalty bought building from highly respectable local owners grant bought buildings , in order to demolish them . Make way for construction of Kensington house , which was on complete , most expensive house in London . Former residents moved in other London slums and ten years later Albert grant went bankrupt and died in relative poverty Kensington house . As I read Irish migrants were paying high rents for slums , after starvation in their home land many of citizens moved to North America but majority in England , they worked there . Thank you for giving us chance to read and learn new information. Best wishes for you your dearest ones .

Thank you for your wonderful cultural documentary channel. As always iam gathering information about topics you mentioned briefly here it’s in 19 th century 1865 1, 000 inhabitants Jennings buildings 800 were either Irish migrants or their children, made up part of 100, 000 Irish migrants of London mainland Britian . Late 1840s number had massively increased. Majority of new migrants were driven by hunger . In 1845 Irish potato crops staple food . Most of eight milion inhabitants was destroyed by blight . Mass starvation ensued . British government expected Ireland, already poor country to support own starving population, but was possible task . Between 1846and 1850 estimated one milion Irish people died of starvation. Furthermore Irish landowners took opportunity to evict small tenant farmers from their land in order to grew more efficient crops . In one area Ireland alone 4, 000 were evicted in few months . Small wonder , in 1866 - 51 two million Irish emigrated to North America , but very large number to Britain mainland.male Irish migrants of Jennings’s buildings found work in Kensington helping to construct housing for rapidly expanding area of middle class London . They worked as Fruit pickers in surrounding orchards . Many women worked as laundresses, cleaning clothes of their wealthy neighboring , they had depended upon local government poor relief . Despite their hardwork and their contributions to resign on economy, including pay high rents for their slums . Generally was believed not to share respectable British values as Catholical and Protestant country . They drank or found recreation streets, it’s widely moral failing of Irish migrants rather than result of their having no room in their homes to seek relaxation, or arrest for more vulnerable to arrest for public in order offense proof they shared criminal culture .

What about my life or many others before and after us

Still the same one law for the rich another one for working class

My family got off the boat in 1858 and lived at 25 Walworth Street in Brooklyn. I have a 2nd great uncle who fell to his death building the bridge. My family has strong roots in Ft Greene.

2 of my 4 great grandparents were Irish, dockers from Canning Town, I’m more than proud of my east London English Irish heritage, never took a penny out the state ( total grafters ) no one has contributed more in building all the great British cites than the Irish , 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇮🇪

As a LONDONER 🇬🇧 The term A ROOKERY... I think was about the noise, and a lot of Crows are known as a MURDER OF CROW'S....⚖️🆘😓 Irish built an awful lot of railways, canales, big powerful men. Not ONLY here but across the pond 💪🙏🇬🇧 We should be helping them at this point in time 🆘😓 History 🥇 or HIS-STORY 🥇 GREAT STUFF 💪 THANK YOU.

R.I.P Queen Victoria.

Victorian Era 1837-1901. Edwardian Era 1901-1910.

No it’s one of the most expensive places in New York. Go Brooklyn.😊

Now london dont belong to the people of great Britain, they are a minority in London now.

@factfeast, I've been extremely curious if you have any accounts of the hard lives that the homosexual communities would have faced in the 19th century? I watched Gentleman Jack but she was a noble person and was treated as such, but what about the poor? Tipping the velvet and fingersmith had very little information about the poor lives and horrible treatment that the gays faced. I know that the lesbians were called "Jacks" and the gay men were called "Molly's". I'd appreciate hearing any true accounts for what it was really like for them.

We vote so we deserve whatever we get

Still over crowded. Still some very dangerous, dirty streets. Still homelessness, drugs, was Murder Capitol for a while.

15:00 Sounds like my brother and myself.

Unimaginable filth lol

Its interesting how similar this was to life in a ghetto, where there are no jobs and money, crime will prevail, especially in overcrowded conditions

At about 21:10 the narrator says that the young man he was speaking to had recently acquired a stall in the O St Market. This only a few blocks (at 7th and 0 NW) from the "National Flats - in the 400 block of N ST NW. However, in the picture was Center Market - which was the main city market for many years. The Center Market was at 7th and Constitution AVE NW so it was like 10 blocks south of National Flats. The history of Center Market is very interesting. The Federal Government decided to build a lot of Federal buildings in the area of Center Market in the 1920s and 30s so the Government closed the market and also had to relocate Chinatown further north on 7th street where it is today. Until then, the present Chinatown was a German neighborhood and the Germans were displaced.

This building would be at approximately what is today about 425 N St NW. I worked about 4 blocks south of this location for many years. Its no where near Georgetown as one of the commentors below indicated (its about 30 blocks to the east of Georgetown). Thank you for the video!

As a bottle digger on weekends iv dug 1800s early tips and dumps ,you can almost feel the misery 😢all folks had was alcohol 🍺 coffee and pain meds ,if you could afford boot polish then you were in advance of others

Tom Carradine does old Victorian and Edwardian songs, plays a lot at Wiltons in London..

My sis want missing then she went ther 😢

I must have Irish blood,, I LOVE POTATOES 😅

I went diggin in a street sweepers and factory tip for bottles ,I soon worked out life was misery ,all I ever found was penny pipes and broken coffee bottles

So mass immigration isnt a recent phenomena??

Love your channel. Great "optics" and many quoted primary scources, read in an interresting, human, voice which pronounces 95% of the words competently, which is a high score in this day and age. Bravo. And, until this broadcast, No Wokeness. 😊 Yay!! Please don't join the current trend of rewriting history l so it doesn't make some modern day emotional cripple take offense or 'feel bad', whatever tgar means. There was a bit of something at the begging of this one that got under my skin a little. Don't do that! Please😮

the american -dream- lie

Great work once again 🤌

Love this, thank you.

My grandpa grew up in hell's kitchen which is the same story irish slums just in NY instead of London

Brooklyn ❤❤❤

Love the old photos, thanks.