The Irish emigrated to Britain at an unprecedented level during the Second World War and made Birmingham their new home. Throughout the twentieth century, poverty in rural areas forced Irish to seek a new life overseas making them Britain’s largest foreign born population. At the onset of the Second World War, with few industries in
We are pleased to announce Páirc Festival will host a 35 minute talk with Prof. Carl Chinn MBE! The talk ‘Irish History in Birmingham & Was There a Peaky Blinder Connection?’ will bring you back in time to the gritty Birmingham backstreets in the late-nineteenth century when the Peaky Blinders were at their height violently
