Irish Emigrants in Britain

In 2008, on the recommendation of the Irish Government's Emigrant Services Advisory Committee, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Micheal Martin T.D., approved grant funding to establish and carry out the collecting project Irish Emigrants in Britain.

"We face a critical choice in the coming years. As those who emigrated in their thousands from Ireland in earlier decades become older, will we be content to let their legacy be one of nostalgic rememberance of a heroic generation, or will we grasp the opportunity that their achievements offer us? I firmly believe that we in Ireland and our communities in Britain and elsewhere have a unique chance to come together, to avail of new global opportunities and technologies and to forge a partnership of which those who went before would be proud".