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The Irish in Manchester, 1832-49

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2016

John M. Werly
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Nineteenth century industrialism brought intensified immigration to the cities of England. E. P. Thomson, in The making of the English working class, generalized on one segment of the new urban population, the Irish :

If they were segregated in some towns, the Irish were never pressed back into ghettos. It would have been difficult to have made a people who spoke the same language and were British citizens under the act of union into a subject minority.

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Irish Historical Studies , Volume 18 , Issue 71 , March 1973, pp. 345 - 358
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Copyright © Irish Historical Studies Publications Ltd 1973

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