Jarrow - 'LITTLE IRELAND' documentary (Alikivi, 28mins, 2008)

Fascinating stuff. Irish people don't get taught enough about our communities in Jarrow, Newcastle, Liverpool, Glasgow, Manchester, Leeds, London, the good stuff that went on. Workers of the world unite.

My grandmother, Bridget Joyce,came from right outside of Clifden in Connemara. She emigrated to Boston in the mid 1920’s and married my grandfather Tom Casey,who had also just emigrated from Co Waterford. Almost everyone in my neighborhood in Medford,a suburb of Boston Massachusetts,had parents or grandparents who had come from Ireland. Irish accents were as common as Boston accents where I grew up.

Great film. Me Da was born in Witton Gardens, Primrose and me Nana was from just outside of Dublin. Me Uncle Billy walked to London in the great march. My maternal side are from Byker. So proud of my Geordie/Celtic roots.

Gary.. My dad drove the bus with the Jarrow Marchers.. told many in Australia and New Zealand about it cause.. Thank you Gary!!

Lovely..thanks for this..great to hear and see!God bless.from Kildare!

Fascinating, thank you. It is incredible important to document these people and their heritage.👌💕

Enjoyed that documentary. Best wishes to all Jarrow folk whether Irish or other background. The march was all I knew about Jarrow.

Very interesting indeed. I am from Shields but bordering on Jarrow. I knew a lot of people from Jarrow with Irish surnames, but I didn't realise the extent of the Irish connection. Thanks for this.

Tom Kelly...my mother's , fathers ,mother born in Manchester. Her parents came over with 2 children,she was born after their arrival. Their name Kelly. Was in 1846...didn't know there was a census in 1881....must have a look thank you for this ...must have been like a living hell after coming from Ireland, .... Jill in Australia

Thank you for making this film

Great video, loved the bit at 14.50 mins the narrator was that engrossed in his dialogue he drove through the no entry signs. History needs videos like this.

I felt so sad when you visited the cemetery and there were no Headstones. I didn't know anything about the Irish heritage connected with Jarrow or the march to London. Thank-you its very humbling to hear what the people went through. My family are from Cavan only my mother came to England in the 50's the rest went to America.

I just love the jordy accent. I come from Cork City. A lot of English people have moved there back in the late 80s, early 90s.

I enjoyed watching this. My mum is a Geordie, I understood every word. 🇦🇺✌🏼😘

Thank you Gary!.. great video..

Thank you Gary.. Didn’ know any of this about Jarrow.. and born there.. Thank you!..

Loved this film so interesting love Jarrow and Irish ancestry ☘️💕

Almost every mainland British city had little Ireland's, my home city in northern England (East Yorkshire coast). I have predecessors called Anne Conlon who lived in the city centre slums in the 1860's at least, probably because of the famine and she was probably my own grandma's own grandmother (on my mother's side). My mother's mother father was called Patrick Grant from Cork who died two days and Christmas Day 1940, just south of Iceland. His cargo ship was originally hit by a German submarine which destroyed the engines, and a few hours or maybe a day later the ship was spotted by an Italian submarine which sank the ship and none of the 45-50 crewmen survived (killed either by the two submarine attacks or probably died of hypothermia in the small lifeboats in the North Atlantic Ocean, in December just south of Iceland). His name is on the merchant navy memorial in central London, the ship was registered in Glasgow and was called the SS Ardabhan (or something similar). Virtually all British people have some ancestry from their Irish predecessors.

Thank you very much

my uncles were priests in jarrow from the 1960s through 1980s. big irish community . great hardworking people