Brian Hanley
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first heard Jun 2026
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The Liverpool Catholic Herald in nineteen ten claimed that the city contained a mixture of races the like of which no other industrial community in the north of England can furnish Jew and Gentile, Mongolian and Negro, Irish and Welsh, with no overwhelming proportion of the genuine born Englishmen.
And last of all, that hybrid product of civilization, the orangemen, all live and have their being on the banks of the Mersey.
Now, the mention of the Orangeman of course and the way that the Orangeman was described reflected something else about Liverpool.
the sectarian dimension to the city, to which I will return.
In eighteen seventy one, almost sixteen percent of Liverpool's population had been born in Ireland.
By nineteen eleven those of Irish Catholic descent numbered at least two hundred thousand, of whom over thirty thousand had actually been born in Ireland.
Many of the Irish Catholic population were concentrated in the Nord End districts, adjacent to the Liverpool docks.
By nineteen hundred, Irish nationalists actually formed the main opposition on Liverpool's conservative and unionist dominated city council.
The area of densest Irish settlement, Scotland Road, was represented at Westminster by a home rule MP, T P.
O'Connor.
The fact was that Liverpool was a city in which Irish nationalists could be elected, indeed could be elected, as a member of Parliament.
On Liverpool City Council, these nationalists, even though they were elected around the issue of Home Rule for Ireland, were often more concerned with problems of housing and employment than home rule itself.
At this point, people who describe themselves as Labour or Socialists were only a small minority on the Council.
Liverpool's Irish working class voted for Irish nationalists.
Critics of Liverpool.
Critics of Catholicism and particularly critics of the Irish, saw in the city's distinctiveness something alien and foreign.
The Irish of Liverpool were described in one account as the scum left behind by the tide of migration between Europe and the continent of America.
It was believed that the better Irish, those who wanted to get on, had travelled from Liverpool to the United States, but in contrast, those who travelled from Ireland intending to go to America, but never quite managing it, had concentrated in Liverpool themselves and been quite content there.
The racist commentator Joseph Bannister suggested that Liverpool was for many years employed as a dumping ground for the Irish Aborigines, whom the United States or our own colonies refused to accept.
Swarms not only of paupers and jailbirds from Sinn Fenland are unloaded there.
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