Irish Birmingham: A History

by James Moran

Book Overview

Birmingham has long been shaped by its Irish residents. The migration caused by Ireland's potato famine gave Birmingham the fourth highest Irish-born population of any English or Welsh town in the mid-1800s. During the 1960s, one in six children born in Birmingham had at least one parent from Ireland. Today the city hosts one of the largest St Patrick's Day parades in the world, attended by an estimated 100,000 people.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1846314755
• ISBN13: 9781846314759
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.1"