Brian Hanley
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3 recordings
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 16 Sep
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Though the experience of the Irish in Liverpool, particularly during the struggle for independence, is somewhat forgotten now.
Elements of it still exist in how the city sees itself today, which is now of course very proud of its Irish connection and tends to downplay somewhat its history as a stronghold of orangism, although orangism still remains a factor in the city's culture.
Liverpool was not the only city that saw significant industrial action linked to the Irish struggle.
In nineteen twenty it was also an important strike in New York.
New York, of course, was the center of Irish America.
By nineteen hundred it's been argued that the Irish effectively ruled the city in many ways.
They controlled its government and politics, dominated construction and building, had moved into their professions and managerial classes.
And had benefited from the general prosperity of the United States in that era.
But the Irish shared New York with numerous ethnic and racial groups, many of whom were beginning to compete with the Irish in the world of work, politics, and culture.
Despite living in one of the most cosmopolitan cities in the world,
Irish Americans, certainly Irish New Yorkers, could exhibit strikingly parochial worldviews.
Irish dockers in particular are longshore men in the American parlance, seemed to cling desperately to the inward looking, slum neighborhoods they had created for themselves on Manhattan's west side in areas such as Chelsea and Hell's Kitchen.
The New York Waterfront was a cauldron of competing ethnic and racial groups.
And at the top in this period were the Irish.
Irish longshore men ran the docks.
Their main power base was along the west side of Manhattan.
where Irish Americans control the docks and the representative trade unions.
Irish cohesion was maintained in many ways by keeping other ethnic and racial groups out of their areas of operation.
Indeed, in the eighteen forties and eighteen fifties the Irish had pushed African Americans essentially out of
New York Del Clan.
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