For more on the Pauper Removals process in #IrishLondonHistory ☘️, check out this analysis of the parish of St Clement Danes!
You can drill into the detail of 43 people removed back to Ireland during the 18th century.
Brochure for the exhibition 'Londoners on Trial: Crime, courts and the public 1244-1924'
Photo of the Irish Removals section in the foyer of The London Archives
An example of an "Irish Pauper" Removal docket
Part of a page of the Middlesex Sessions register showing an "Idle & Disorderly" charge made against Irishwoman Mary Smith
More #IrishLondonHistory ☘️ at @thelondonarchives.bsky.social exhibition 'Londoners on Trial'.
One display explores Removals of poor & destitute Irish from late 18th & 19th century London.
And if you look closely at many of the other exhibits, you'll see references to Irish people and surnames. /1
One for the #IrishLondonHistory ☘️ enthusiasts 👇
(FYI @irishinbritain.bsky.social )
Also named after St Patrick was Patricia Lynch (1894-1972). Before she became *the* Irish children’s author, she lived in London. A member of the East London Federation of Suffragettes, she went to Dublin to report on the 1916 Rising. /4
#StPatricksDay #IrishLondonHistory ☘️
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Another sighting of St Patrick in #IrishLondonHistory ☘️
#StPatricksDay ☘️
A page of the Decrmber 1848 burial records for the Anglican Church of St Mary Matfelon. The entry for Patrick Sheen is highlighted in green at the bottom of the page
Photo of Altab Ali Park, London E1 on a sunny day. By the late nineteenth century, the churchyard was closed and the site was heavily damaged during the Blitz bombing raids on East London. Few grave markers remain and the old churchyard is now grassed over as a park which memorialises Altab Ali, a young Bangladeshi man brutally murdered in a racially motivated attack in Whitechapel in 1978.
In Dec 1848, 4 year-old Patrick Sheen died in Whitechapel during the 1848 cholera epidemic. He & other members of his Irish family & migrant community were buried as paupers "on the parish" in the churchyard of St Mary Matfelon - now Altab Ali Park, London E1 /3
#StPatricksDay ☘️ #IrishLondonHistory
The edge of St Patrick’s Catholic Cemetery on a very hot summer's day. A Central Line tube train passes on the other side of a wire fence
Grave markers in St Patrick's Catholic Cemetery in Leyton topped with statues of the Virgin Mary, Jesus, and angels
Closeup of a stylised Celtic Cross with a shamrock motif, with a statue of Mary behind.
Top of a headstone seen in St Patrick's Catholic Cemetery, Leyton E11. The inscription says "Peter Daly of County Westmeath, Ireland who died April 8 1877. Aged 59 years"
St Patrick's Catholic Cemetery beside Leyton tube, London E11 ☘️ Opened in 1868 as London's second Catholic Cemetery & full of Irish names & placenames, alongside the dead of London's Italian, Polish, Lithuanian, etc migrant communities.
Well worth a visit. /2
#StPatricksDay #IrishLondonHistory ☘️
A stained glass representation of St Patrick in The Guild Church of St Katharine Cree 86 Leadenhall St, London EC3A 3BP
A triptych of stained glass saints in The Guild Church of St Katharine Cree, 86 Leadenhall St, London EC3A 3BP. From left to right, St Andrew of Scotland, St George of England. St. Patrick of Ireland. At their feet, the Royal Standard of Scotland, the flag of the City of London, the Royal Standard of the Kingdom of Ireland (1542-1801).
For the day that's in it #StPatricksDay - some random sightings of St Patrick in #IrishLondonHistory ☘️
Beginning with a stained glass St Patrick in The Guild Church of St Katharine Cree in the City of London, with the Royal Standard of the Kingdom of Ireland
(1542 – 1801) at his feet. /1
The (not very successful) Irish inventor Richard Pockrich died in 1759 when his room at Hamlin's Coffee-house, Sweeting's Alley, near the Royal Exchange, London went up in flames. A small piece of #IrishLondonHistory ☘️
Read all about his extraordinary life here 👇
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At the wonderful Hackney History Festival, I'll be exploring 1000 (!) years of Ireland's history through the Reed Celtic Cross in Stoke Newington's Abney Park Cemetery ☘️
Sun 10 May, 3 pm, Sutton House, London E9. Tix only £3 😀
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Screenshot of paragraph from "Maria Edgeworth, letters from England 1813-1844" by Christina Colvin Source: Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/mariaedgeworthle0000chri/page/119/mode/1up?q=stoke+newington
B/W etching image of Maria Edgeworth seated at a table
15 October 1818: Irish novelist Maria Edgeworth (1768-1849) writes from Hampstead to her stepmother in Ireland about her visit to the noted writer Anna Letitia Barbauld (1743-1825).
Unfortunately Stoke Newington does not make a good impression - "What a dismal place!"
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For a wonderful account of the life and musical career of Irish composer Michael William Balfe (1808-1870), see the website of Irish music historian Basil Walsh
www.britishandirishworld.com
#IrishLondonHistory ☘️ 3/3
Title page of the 1843 score & libretto for "The Bohemian Girl", by the Irish 19th-century composer Michael William Balfe
Illustration of the Irish Famine from the Illustrated London News, Feb 1847, showing a woman with a baby in her arms and asking for aid.
"Marble Halls" came from Balfe's hugely successful opera "The Bohemian Girl" which premiered at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane in 1843.
Early in 1847, Balfe & London impresario Benjamin Lumley raised £2000 for Irish Famine victims through a fundraising concert.
#IrishLondonHistory ☘️ 2/3
Nighttime photo of the exterior of Wilton's Music Hall, an original 18th century music hall building in London E1
Poster for an interpretation of James Joyce's short story "The Dead", performed by The Fourth Choir and narrated by Justine Mitchell.
More #IrishLondonHistory ☘️ prompted by a beautiful rendition of "I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls" by @thefourthchoir.bsky.social for James Joyce's "The Dead" at Wiltons Music Hall.
Composed by Dublin-born Michael Balfe (1808-1870), famous across mid-19th century Britain, Ireland and Europe. 1/2
Nighttime photo of Chadwell Heath Baptist Church
Photo of Breda Corish presenting to the Chadwell Heath Historical Society
Nighttime photo of Chadwell Heath High Road
A big thank you - Go raibh míle maith agaibh - to Chadwell Heath Historical Society for the opportunity to talk about the #IrishLondonHistory ☘️ of women in Tower Hamlets over 500 years. Great chats afterwards about the Irish family connections of so many people in the room! 💚
For more on the #IrishLondonHistory ☘️ of the Donovan Bros #GhostSign in Spitalfields, check out this writeup by @blag.typo.social.ap.brid.gy
ghostsigns.co.uk/2022/02/the-...
Tomorrow night Tues 20 Jan, I'm revisiting a favourite topic - '500 years of Irish Women in Tower Hamlets' - for the Chadwell Heath Historical Society.
Close to the Irish migrant world of Ford Dagenham #PublicHistory #IrishLondonHistory ☘️
Tix on the door - only £3
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Photo of the Donovan Bros ghostsign painted on the ground floor of 46 Crispin Street, London E1
Photograph of the building at 46 Crispin Street, near Spitalfields Market, London E1.
'Donovan Bros - the noted home for Paper Bags' - more #IrishLondonHistory ☘️ in a #GhostSign at 46 Crispin Street, London E1.
@thegentleauthor.bsky.social has recorded the company history, starting w Jeremiah O'Donovan migrating from Dublin to Aldgate in the 1830s
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Photo of entrance to Lilian Knowles House, 50 Crispin Street, London E1 6HQ. A statue of the Virgin Mary with a halo of stars remains in place above the doorway.
Photo of Lilian Knowles House, 50 Crispin Street, London E1 6HQ, previously the Providence Row Night Refuge Home.
Photo of the 'Women' entrance to the Providence Row Night Refuge Home, now the Lilian Knowles House, 50 Crispin Street, London E1 6HQ.
Closeup of the statue of the Virgin Mary above the doorway into Lilian Knowles House, 50 Crispin Street, London E1 6HQ.
A piece of #IrishLondonHistory ☘️ at 50 Crispin Street by Spitalfields Market, London E1
Now student accommodation, this began as the Providence Row Night Refuge Home in 1868. Sisters of Mercy from #Wexford ☘️ ran this refuge for the homeless as the first non-sectarian shelter for East London's poor.
Something extraordinary about holding a book printed almost 350 years ago.
"Tiomna Nuadh ar dTighearna agus ar Slanuigheora Iósa Criosd" (1681) - the New Testament printed for the first time using the old Irish alphabet. Printed on Ave Maria Lane, EC4 & now in St Bride Foundation #IrishLondonHistory
Plaque inscription: "Four feet below this spot is the stone step, formerly the entrance to the cottage in which lived Andrew Marvell, poet, wit, and satirist; colleague with John Milton in the foreign or Latin secretaryship during the Commonwealth; and for about twenty years M.P. for Hull. Born at Winestead, Yorkshire, 31st March, 1621, died in London, 18th August, 1678, and buried in the church of St. Giles-in-the-Fields. This memorial is placed here by the London County Council, December, 1898." The text of An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell’s Return from Ireland can be read here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44683/an-horatian-ode-upon-cromwells-return-from-ireland
On Highgate Hill, London N6 - a plaque memorialising 17th century poet Andrew Marvell. Author of "An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland" (1650)
"And now the Irish are asham’d
To see themselves in one year tam’d;
So much one man can do
That does both act and know"
#IrishLondonHistory ☘️
Scan of the front page of 'Tiomhna Nuadh', the Old Testament in Irish published in London in 1681. Full scan available here https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_tiomna-nuadh-_bible-gaelic_1681/mode/2up
Closeup of the printer details, printed in Old Irish script, on the title page of 'Tiomhna Nuadh', the Old Testament in Irish
First page of the Old Testament in Irish - 'Tiomhna Nuadh'.
The New Testament was first published in Irish in London, 1681. The famous Irish scientist Robert Boyle (1627-1691) financed the casting of metal type for the Old Irish script by Joseph Moxon in London. The books were printed by Robert Everingham of Ave Maria Lane, London EC4
#IrishLondonHistory ☘️
Closeup of 8 spirals carved into the shaft of the Reed Cross in Abney Park Cemetery, London N16
Photo of the 'Reed Cross', a 17 foot high Crltic Cross carved in Kilkenny, Ireland and erected in Abney Park Cemetery in 1893
Some wintry sun in Abney Park Cemetery this week really highlighted the intricate carvings by Irish monumental sculptor Edward O’Shea on the Celtic Cross grave memorial to the two sons of Hackney's first MP, Sir Charles Reed
#IrishLondonHistory ☘️
Fascinating interview here by @markhennessy.bsky.social with retired diplomat Noel Dorr - the Irish Ambassador in London at the time of the Anglo-Irish Agreement of 1985. #IrishLondonHistory ☘️
Some #IrishLondonHistory ☘️for the Monaghan people here #spéirghorm
Castleshane House, the ancestral home of Edward Lucas MP, burned down in 1920 - accident or one of the Big House burnings of Ireland's War of Independence? Here's Terence Dooley's account: cshihe.wordpress.com/2020/04/23/i...
Photo of laptop screen showing RTÉ live broadcast from Dublin Castle
Screenshot of Hansard debate re the state of Dublin Castle, held 7 June 1883 https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/1883-06-07/debates/196af9df-387f-4b47-9ecb-75f27bf35bd1/TheCastleDublin%E2%80%94StPatrickSHall
St Patrick's Hall in Dublin Castle looking fabulous this morning for Catherine Connolly's inauguration as the President of Ireland 💚
In contrast to the "very dilapidated condition" bemoaned in the Westminster Parliament in 1883!
#IrishLondonHistory ☘️
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Photo of a paragraph in the Guardian newspaper https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/oct/31/what-does-it-mean-to-be-plain-old-andrew-mountbatten-windsor
Portrait of James Butler (1665–1745), 2nd Duke of Ormonde by William Gandy (c.1655–1729) Source: ArtUK & Royal Museum's Greenwich
Prior to this week, the last person stripped of the UK's Order of the Garter was in 1716: James Butler (1665–1745), 2nd duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland & Jacobite.
Of Ireland's Anglo-Norman Butler dynasty, he is buried in Westminster Abbey #IrishLondonHistory ☘️
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Photo taken at night, after rain, of the National Gallery in London’s Trafalgar Square. People are silhouetted against the floodlit Gallery building.
A part of #IrishLondonHistory ☘️ I only learned about a few years ago is the convoluted tale of how the Cork-born art dealer Sir Hugh Lane (1875-1913) connects London's National Gallery & Dublin's Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art.
Read it here 👇
www.nationalgallery.org.uk/about-us/his...
Screenshot of the title page of George Walker's "Gatherings from Graveyards" Read about it here https://www.cemeteryresearch.org/timeline/1839-gatherings-from-graveyards/
Screenshot of pages 177-178 of George Walker's "Gatherings from Graveyards" Book is available to read and download here https://wellcomecollection.org/works/qre7bheq
#31DaysofGraves Day 25: Graveside Ornament - part 2/2
In George Walker "Gatherings from Graveyards" (1839), a Southwark vestry mtg of 20 Feb 1838 minuted 'aversion generally manifested to bury in what is named the "Irish corner"' of St. Saviour's poor ground a.k.a. Crossbones #IrishLondonHistory ☘️
