Irish Navvy - The Irish In England

[@lukemitchell6991]

This is my Granddad, James McHugh it was filmed in Tufnell Park (London) in 1964 and is associated with a documentary - The Irish in Britain

[@johnsmith-bx4rn]

how old is your grandfather Luke , and is he still in London

[@lukemitchell6991]

@@johnsmith-bx4rn John unfortunately my Granddad is no longer alive, he died in 1974 at the age 46!

[@ssssSTopmotion]

I like his accent

[@That_Random_Bloke]

That’s such a young age to pass away. Does your family still live in Britain? This is a fascinating clip, I’d love to see the full documentary. My relatives moved to England in 1968 from Leitrim

[@patrickconnors4602]

@@lukemitchell6991 where in Ireland was he from.

[@kenspinozastone7195]

My grandad immigrated to England in the 50s, he was from Cyprus. He always told me growing up, just how hard working and generous the irish were. He always admired them, always.

[@eoghancasserly3626]

I'm Irish and I think the exact same of the Eastern Europeans that come here. They come here from Moldova and the like and break their backs for minimum wage. Respect to your father, my grandad was a bus driver in Birmingham possibly around the same time, and love to Cyprus! One divided nation to another

[@tomthomas9708]

Fuck off

[@irishcountrygirl78]

@@tomthomas9708 now now...

[@MrSavageXproductions0]

@@tomthomas9708 jesus relax man

[@sinead7475]

Sarah Jayne Chambers (AkA Sadie) from Dunmanway. Danny Grace from Drinagh. Childhood sweethearts. They were my grandparents who migrated to England in search of work post-war. I'm 3rd gen but proud of my heritage.

[@doctordolittle3652]

I'm an English gentlemenans I LOVE the Irish, their jokes an laughter. Wonderful people.The sure know a good time. that is for sure! One thing for sure there not scared of hard graft! that is for sure!

[@krisskross3076]

Pakistani are at least as hard working

[@catherinemitchell8495]

@@rorymoriarty-scanlon882 well said. That was my father in the clip.

[@1bigjohnnyd]

@@krisskross3076 What are you going on about . Pakistan has nothing to do with this clip or building canals railways motorways or important infastructure in Britan . Their wernt any Pakistanis building Britan back in that day . Itwas hard working Irish British Scotts Welsh & some east europeans .

[@matthewmcinerney4228]

Thank you

[@stephenwilliams4801]

Kriss Kross you Avin a laugh taxi driver or waiter,....now drugs....

[@michaeljohndennis2231]

I’ve watched many documentaries of the Irish here in the U.K. being native first generation Irish myself and it is shameful how, having been forced to leave Ireland in their youth, in the days when Ireland was emerging from its past as the oldest part of the British Empire, these Irishmen and Irishwomen lived in terrible conditions in multicultural hellholes in the U.K. and grew to be such, as the first group of immigrants to come to the U.K., without hardly any help or support by the Irish government due to corruption within the Irish government, these Irish people died in terrible circumstances - even in death, especially post Covid, they were denied their last wish to be buried in Ireland, even their ashes, as I observed coming home on the ferries from Holyhead - it’s a surprise that those of us Irish were even allowed to have Irish passports when living abroad, even online, as during Brexit, this process of applying to renew Irish passports was made much more difficult - they only allowed (younger) Irish people to “get the boat to vote” in the equal Marraige referendum, which as an older Irish gay man myself, I felt was deeply hypocritical and repulsive (I would have voted “no” in that referendum) - we Irish abroad are still denied a say in the life of our country back home (the excuse being used is “cultural” issues) even in the internet age (even allowing for what happened with Trump’s election in the US later on) but the fact that we are denied voting rights after 5 years living outside Ireland in Irish elections and referenda, even though we hold Irish passports, is totally repulsive - if we Irish abroad had the vote, we would have swept the corruption and traitors out of Dáil Éireann long ago and our home country would not be in the mess that it is in today, as we clearly see from abroad and from our contacts with our families in Ireland 🇮🇪☘️🇮🇪

[@karlbyrne6021]

@michaeljohndennis2231 I agree with you and what makes it harder to stomach is the fact that all the migrants coming into Ireland illegally (no passports) are allowed to vote immediately, many with no knowledge of the language. It's a disgrace & like what is happening in the UK, it ain't going to end well. Greetings from Dublin Ireland.

[@carolefranks5489]

My Dad came over in 1958 after finishing Technical College in Newcastle West in Limerick. He told me that all the big building companies used to send agents over to Ireland to recruit workmen from the market squares on market day, usually in the winter months as there was no work to be had on the farms. He had no desire to leave Ireland but there just wasn't any work for him. He's worked hard ever since he arrived here and has done very well for himself. But he says now that this isn't the country he came to in the 50's. People want everything for nothing these days and don't want to work or take responsibility for themselves.

[@trevorcox3020]

I just love this, thanks for putting it on!

[@mickybrennan3489]

Irish men ,hard as nails.

[@mrrooter3630]

Both my grandparents moved to England in thr 60s. With my Grandfather on my father's side emigrating to London at the age of 16 in 1962. My mother's father emigrated in 1964 at the age of 17. Both worked as Navvies and floated between Ireland and England right up until the early 90s. There where thousands more with the same story. It was hard work and to think of the age that many of them started it's mad.

[@Englishman_and_mountains]

British children were working down mines up until 1940

[@MrCOUNTYCORK]

i was 16 when i went to london cricklewood was my stop ,and up the cricklewood broadway for work at 6 in the morning ,that was the finish of a green young fella,u learned fast

[@ecjohnst1]

stone wall 4

[@aidanodonnell3297]

Pure class bring back the Irish in droves 🍀🍀🍀🍻🍻Mayo r us

[@thewinnertakesitall4384]

I'm here for 40 years , brought up in cahir, aughamoor. England has been good to us

[@dechickey7654]

I'd be confident the Nag's Head being referred to in the video was the one on the Holloway Road and I lived a few hundred yards along from there for ten years from 2004. Late in my dad, Denis’s life (then back in Ireland) he happened to ask one day if the Nag’s Head was still there. I was a bit stunned he knew the area and although I’d had vague memories of him having had labouring jobs around the country when he moved over from Wexford to England in 1949 I hadn’t remembered anything of any time he'd had in London. I told him the pub had long gone and he recounted that he’d lived in digs in Camden Rd (Stratford Villas) and occasionally on a night in the pub, some railways foreman would come in near the end of the night and ask ‘Anyone for a night’s work?’ Dad said he and whoever was with him - a good few pints in - would head out the door, do the night’s work and then be straight into his next day’s work labouring somewhere else. :)

[@georgedeathe4683]

Not Wanted ,how true, my parents went over in 46 .

[@NipperM846]

Wondering what year this bit of footage was taken? And is there any more videos or clips of different areas in England and men from different Counties etc. There was hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of Irish men doing this work in those very hard times. Would be lovely to see some more footage. Shame there wasn't mobile phones back then, can you just imagine what we might be able to see now on KZbin. Does anyone know if their was anything like this done on Murphy's Men going back to the 50s and up?

[@patrickconnors4602]

1964

[@johncreagh960]

Pure fucking class

[@MyrddnWllt]

As much as I respect the Irish navvy the made up 30% of the Navvy workforce. Most were Navvys in England were English. In Scotland Scottish. In Wales Welsh.

[@Liam-lv1fx]

Bs

[@VincentFriel-cf9yp]

I agree 2024

[@michaeljohndennis2231]

I’ve been living 21 years in Manchester at age 53, originally from Co. Meath - but I’ve since heard the suggested trope (possibly indirectly British or Jewish inspired) from Irish people in Rural Ireland in the village that I come from, on visits home, that I am deemed to have “abandoned” my home country, which is simply not the case, as I still have extended family in Rural Ireland whom I visit frequently from the U.K. - then such people in Rural Ireland who have this mindset have the idea (even in the internet age) that I am deemed to “not understand” that I’m “wrong” in some way when I see things happening in Ireland from a fresh perspective as an older Irish gay man - given recent events in the post Covid era with the aftermath of the Dublin riots, maybe the coming “hate speech” laws are probably needed to make such people “cop themselves on”

[@freedom.4.ireland776]

My uncle went to England when he was 17 yrs of age an came back to my grandmothers door at the age of 34 without parce nor parcel a lot of the way English country paned out an took its it's course owes its dues to the Irish men who broke there back to make it what it is today

[@christineusher6204]

The irish were exploited by there own, come and work for a paddy company not an English just collect the money from the pub hatch pay no insurance where they would have got perks and pensions if they stayed with an English company.They now sit back in Ireland with nothing.

[@Englishman_and_mountains]

I'm of irish descent my family stayed 100% irish up until my father who was of Scottish descent. I'm proud and glad I'm British. This is how Britain payed their dues. We owe nothing now.

[@Danny-uc9ic]

Brake your heart

Nowadays, there are probably most ethnic Irishmen in England than actual english people lol.

[@practicing1]

We are done working for the English

[@EIREriddick13]

What a clueless thing to post?!

[@ryanpatricklownds9622]

This song is about this generation of workers Watch "The Rosheens - No Blacks, No Dogs, No Irish (Live)" on KZbin kzbin.info/www/bejne/qmnWXqRvn76mf68

[@adamdean988]

You be back begging for us to bail you out again GB GB GB GB GSOQ FGAU NO SURRENDER ✋󾓪 󾓪 󾓪

[@practicing1]

@@adamdean988 with what? ur on child support

[@adamdean988]

@@practicing1 child support what's that ?

[@jessiejoemurkin659]

Every1 who has Irish ancestors what part are they from

[@jessiejoemurkin659]

@Liverpool 101 that’s nice

[@eugenemurtagh2085]

Racism from the English? Never!

[@robertbest4398]

Fair enough depends where you are big citys England you where not wanted in America if you know your history love the irish wtf

[@siofra3819]

Yes but that changed in America, it was the wasps that didn't like the Irish. The Irish fought the kkk in Nostradamus, and then obviously they Kennedy's who whose whole family line was Irish. The Irish got their foot in politics and it changed they way forward

[@jackmoran6231]

I have spent more than 50 years in the London construction industry and worked with an equal number of Scots, Irish, English, poles and many other nationalities, Navvies, Brickies, Carpenters, pilers, concrete gangs. Irish were NOT the only builders of roads dams, housing and many types of public works. Jack Moran from Greenock,Scotlans.

[@PP-vt9ug]

Does anyone know where this short clip came from?And if there is more footage to it?

[@paullong9420]

+Bob Bob This footage comes from Philip Donnellan's film The Irishmen which was made for the BBC but never broadcast. RTE have shown it and it has been exhibited by various Irish associations and at festivals.

[@jobennett7211]

That’s my dad James mchugh I’m the baby sitting on my mother’s lap that clip was filmed in London Tufnell Park road

[@peterthepersonalstylist]

@@jobennett7211 fantastic!!! And your dad was RIGHT!! ❤️❤️❤️

[@peterthepersonalstylist]

@@jobennett7211 I keep coming back to this and am desperately trying to see the 1965 documentary! Can we see it in full somewhere, somehow?

[@jobennett7211]

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