Mick Lynch

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155 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 14 May

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Today with David McCullagh · Come to your census – a journey to know your relatives · 29 Apr 2026 podcast

And you look at your own children,

And you think, well, what if my kids had to go abroad to another culture, to a big city during the war?

I mean, my mother came here with her sisters when they were 15 and 16 to the Blitz, as did my dad, to seek work.

So it shows you what Ireland was like.

And it makes you think about migrants now.

It's not an easy path to become a migrant, to leave your home.

And then more or less with people having to go abroad, it was more or less forever.

You knew you weren't going to come back.

Whereas people that are migrating now, and I know it still goes on, do have the prospect of coming back either to make a living or to make extended visits to your parents.

I felt for my grandmother as well, who all her children, all of our grandparents more or less lost the vast majority of their children.

And that is the story of the British in Ireland, the Irish in Britain, that we come from all over.

I said to a few people, in Britain at that time, you could mix as Irish people, whereas Irish people living in Ireland probably had to stay in their area, whereas in London it was a 32-county experience.

So most of the people in London are from the country areas or the West.

And it's a remarkable migration.

The numbers of people here of Irish descent...

people estimate it to be up to 20 million, which is an incredible number of people that we've exported from Ireland.

So yeah, I do feel close to them, but it makes you reflect on what people have to go through now to migrate and find a better life for themselves.

Well, it's been a disappointment and Starmer stood on this mandate for change and not much has changed.

I think we've had

45 years of Thatcherism in Britain, and it's now starting to mature and corrupt the state.

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