Irish Heart, Coventry Home 

My Dad travelled from Donegal in Ireland to Scotland looking for work. He then travelled from Scotland to England and found work working on the land at a from near Brighton he meet my mum who was also working on the farm she was a land army girl. They got married and move to Brighton where the lived until the both past away . My dad worked in a local factory until he retired, and he died when he was 73. Godbless you dad I miss you very much ❤

I was born in Coventry. I’m from Glasgow. There are thousands of Scottish ppl in Coventry. I have Irish blood too💚🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪

England was/is the making of me! In 1972, I married a fine English girl, who gave me 3 fine sons (one sadly deceased because he inherited my family heart disease) and we now live in our own mortgage free home in Hampshire. I will always be a proud Irishman, who will be be forever grateful for the opportunities given to me.

Loved this documentary, so authentic. So genuine, and true words expressed within, Coventry is my home, Ireland is my heart. Yes, we can be Irish by birth, yet still appreciate the country we raised our families. Had relatives who emigrated from Cork to Birmingham and Dagenham London and raised their families there. As immigrants be it by choice, or circumstance in times of yore, it was heartwarming to hear of your experiences. To all of those who found fortune, and yes, many the thousands who failed. I applaud your courage and tenacity. I personally spent some time working in London, Coventry, and Leamington Spa back in the late 1960s. As a resident of the U.S.A. for over 46 years now. I say to all the Irish Diaspora past and present, I salute your strength and resolution. Go n-eire leat.

My aunt emigrated to Coventry in the 50s. Her husband worked in Massey ferguson making tractors. They came back to live in Ireland in the 1980s.

Brings back memories of a lovely time spent in Coventry as a student in the early eighties and the colourful Irish characters I met including one I recognised in this video even after not having seen him for over forty years. John Murphy was one of the men interviewed with his wife Ann. He used to be the landlord of the Rose and Woodbine pub ( which has gone now). He was a star! Although a big chunk of my student grant went into his till! Great video.

They Irish are loved all over the world and it is happening again.

It was great to see Sean Cannon on the film, I’ll always remember him singing The Galway Shawl at the City Arms folk club in Earlsdon. You could hear a pin drop...

There is plenty of English stock living in cork my great grandparents moved from stoke Newington in 1894 to cork city and I think they moved was because stoke Newington was poverty stricken and cork at that time was a major international port with a lot of opportunities

I can identify when the lady said, when she goes to Ireland it’s home but when she is going back to Coventry that’s home too. I’ve been living in Montreal for 14 years and I say the same when I go home to Donegal. Funny how such a faraway and different place can become home too.

Last day June 1974: Flew to London - first flight ever - was signed on that same (Sunday) night for Railway work, catching van at Shepherds Bush Green/BBC Studios for work out the M4 Slough-Reading stretch. To me , previously unimaginable wages, £75 p.w. after a tenner p.w. at home.

Several of my relations lived in Coventry for years, they seemed to be happy there. They used to go to Finbarrs which was run by Joe McCarthy who was related to my Grandmother

Hi all. I am Anglo Irish .My mum came to the UK in 1950, from Graiguenamanagh

Excellent video and project. Thanks for involving me. Joe.

Thank you lovely stories

Love it Sadie about the old cattle boats . My ma tells me all the time

Enjoyed this , very good. My Mother came over to Coventry from kilfinane, along with her parents and most of her siblings.

Thank you for posting this … absolutely beautiful..from a child of Irish immigrants 👍

I remember the late 1960’s , Finbarr and Eddie Furey had a flat off the Holyhead Road, great times...

Very intriguing documentary, I learned a lot

A great video, shared on our channel along with the best of everything Irish

Brilliant - Add White Bear Willenhall The Bear Broadgate The SkyBlue Coundon

Wonderful film. Beautiful people.

The Princess Maud had a round hull, so it rolled in all directions

No one mentions that Irish people immediately gained all the benefits of British citizenship (voting etc) the moment they arrived. And that’s the case now. My father was Irish and he always spoke of the kindness he met when he came here - and that was about the time of the Great Depression and work was scarce. He was helped to find work. Also it’s worth mentioning, Ireland was ruled by the Catholic Church. It was a terrible place. My father would never enter a Catholic Church. Not for weddings, funerals or christenings. He stayed outside. Unfortunately I never asked him exactly why. All he said was the Catholic clergy were evil. He went to a Christian Brothers school.

So many familiar faces. 👍👍👍

I'm from the hubutt family tessellation my mum and Ann my grandmother that we are famley I have geat photos

Good to see many positive experiences - probably down to having both men and women in a stable community, not like the lads who worked all over the place.

wonderful

I went over in the 1960 s

Danny Doherty St. Vitus Dance monomanic.

They should change that and put that picture up ...!!!!!

Hence the saying : " wen you send someone 2 Coventry , by not holding a conversation with said friend / person " ?? 😂✌️

😮 grandad cairns is on this ❤❤

Can anybody help,is a well known member of the community by the name of Bob Skelly still alive ,as I would love to look him up.This would be very much appreciated.many thanks.

Rory Gallagher International or Rory X Cork

Annie , when was there a curfew in Newry ?

English landlords had all the land caused the famine etc

We used to climb on 6ft wall and go to bed with our clothes on because otherwise we would be caught 🤪

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The Irish around the world should be proud.But learn a little more than some who's ideas on Ireland and history are therefore basic and limited. Don't commit the usual mistake and sin of giving the English /british far too much credence! Fact the British never existed 800 years ago, The very French speaking Norse Viking Normans conquered parts of Ireland after it had conquered near all of what is now England.English language as you know it today never existed until the 14thcentuty and not widely spoken until the 16th in England. Not widely spoken in Ireland until the late 19th century, today we commonly speak a first US American hybrid, which is cool for me!!!! Fact the british never existed until the 17th century even in print let alone common name, that never happened until the world wars, many today on the island of Britain do not consider themselves as british. At time of Vinegar Hill Hanoverian (germans) were running the show in Britain, having lost their American colony they used extremes of crimes to hold onto Ireland. So do not give these supposed english or supposed british more credence than they deserve. they are both a mongrel hybrid of European mafia families, monarchies that are more German and French in origin. Oh and as for the commentator who thinks he is English and a anglo saxon, more utter myth nonsense.A few south eastern counties have a dna basis that is around 10% peak which could be credibly labelled as originating from these Germanic tribes.Most of what is todays England and has always has been so are more Celtic and Norse. The Irish in MILLIONS have been arriving all over Britain for hundreds of years, the traffic was very much one way, west to east! UP THE IRISH

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