They should make a TV series like Auf Wedesen pet and call it begorrah be jesus.

Have you never heard of a the Tyrone Derry, Armagh , Cavan, Monaghan toilers you blinkered idiot?

no words on the treacherous quislings bastards of ireland much like the present incumbents, ofc the remittance of sterling was grand , nothing but soft talk in exchange

Was there no workers for the 6 counties never heard any mention of them

They were men

They were the men

I thought it was the blacks that built Britain.

Why can't they make those so called Refugees strart something. You hear 'Muppet Ryan' getting the Ralways going again. They need to put the tracks in first. Get the Chain Gang out, instead of Tax Payers money spent on their needs.😢😮

2:45, The only man with a hard hat is probably only one who doesn't do any physical work. The Crown in Cricklewood was another "job center"

Was there no men fromn the north of Ireland that slaved in England or are u a free stater

What’s the bands name covering crooked jack?

The Irish gangs of old, the toughest workers in the world. I've seen the clients now waiting at Cricklewood Corner to be picked up, they wouldn't have lasted 5 minutes in the old days. Sadly, Kilburn and Cricklewood are now changed forever. They were fantastic places when the Irish were there in the 50s, 60s, and 70s.

Tiochfaid ar la✊

The English and most Empiralist are stupid.

As always Ultan brilliantly put across . We spoke some time ago through emails and you gave me good advice about doing my memoirs . thanks Ruane

No better men!

What’s the song called at bringing

My auld man came from Tipperary to England got on the demolition

My Dad is a Tipp man. Worked digging tunnels under the roads of Cricklewood and Hendon in the 60s. He is a Congo Veteran as well. He came home in 70. He's 82 now

Who is reading the poem at 11 mins and what is the name of the verse? I see bits of the spoken intro to Mc Alpine’s Fusileers, but this is a bit different.

All the Irish men worked hard in England

Wages haven’t gone up in 30 years in the construction industry because of the eu

Now it’s the Romainian’s.

Thank you for sharing

we should be thanking the english for giving us the jobs to feed our familys

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Would be interesting to see your comment on this post Ultan www.linkedin.com/posts/anna-whitehouse-586623a4_flexappeal-newnormal-activity-6704665199930032128-BTs-

The only real hard workers that came to the UK,from the 18th to the 20th century they build canals railways hydro dams motorways over the pennines ,and the London Manchester liverpool railway some say a greater feat than the great wall of china.

RIP indeed! Great men, all of them. Some vanished voices here:kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y5zWeJuqedqYf6s

i worked on the motor ways 1960 hard work but good money blue it all a lot men done the same English men were good to work with

at 1:02 those Irishmen have now been replaced by Eastern Europeans.

As you know Ultan from my email I can relate to all of this documentary , I learned a great deal from the boys of old which made me what I am today great crack as a young fella and great blokes which are no longer with us .

Great book, I worked with green McNicholas in the 1980s,actually a documentary was made around that time called .. The pick,the shovel and the open road,would like a copy if anyone could tell me where I could get one Pat

why dont they just use an excavator machine rather than dig?

Ultan Cowley, what a song! Who is singing?

the person who put this togather is not speaking from personal experience he never spent long round camden town hes talking shite cant even get the wagon colours right

americansarebeggars (name?): '35 yards was and is pure and utter bullsh!t.an average of 4 ft deep to lay the cables, u wouldnt do it with a mini digger, typical exageration, it was infact 10 yards after being broken up with a jack hammer ran off an perkins engine powered air compressor!' Depends very much on the period & the resources of the subbie. '35 yards (per day)' was a quote from Wexford subbie Billy O'Grady who worked out of Greater Manchester in the early post-war period. Noel O'Donnell, Rosmuc, quotes 10 yards by lunchtime with Murphy out of London & elsewhere in the '60s/'70s. Presumably the tarmac was indeed broken up with 'Paddy's motorbike' first but after that, he was on his own. He can be heard on my CD Voices of the men who built Britain. He lives in Galway, he's in his seventies, he's one of the most intelligent, decent, and honourable men its been my privilege to meet in my 6o-odd years, and anyone who wants to call him a liar is welcome to do so - to his face! I'd be happy to make the introductions...

brilliant book, that good ive read it twice excellent work Ultan.

"90% of the Railway Navvies were English, not Irish" Such a statemenmt that you are eager to make, only highlights your ignorance. You are not only guessing, but you are assuming that the sons and further descendants of the mainly Irish navvys of the 19th Century canals considered themselves as English. There were many Irish who built the railways, they just never fitted into your limited idea of what and who are the Irish. I know plenty of 3rd generation Irish in London, that you would not wa t be making such bold statements of assumption. Your so called statement in summary is a BS guess, based on no actual references. As if Britian ever respected the children of the Irish as being Irish, yet the same hypocrites demand people respect the BS supposed British status of people in Ireland and around the world based on claims from centuries old! ;People like you encourage ignorance!

Re. 'aussiness74': As stated in my book, The men who built Britain, 90% of the Railway Navvies were English, not Irish. However the book traces the genesis of the Irish presence on 19C. Public Works via the seasonal migrant agricultural labourers (Spailpins & Tattie Hokers) through to their mid-20C. domination of groundworks in British construction, etc. See my website for more. Regards,, Ultan

Fascinating, nice touch too with the song, but from what I see, this is about the men mostly from the 1950's onwards, not the 19th century. would that be right? Also, it mentions the places these men left, was that typical of those leaving shores for Scotland or England, building the railways?

Hi Contact me at [email protected] for more info. Regards Ultan

ultan, where can i buy this book ? could u please let me know. thanks

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R.S.K or road side killers as my old man called them :)

All empires were built from slave labour.