New updated edition of the seminal work by Catherine Dunne, which charted the lives of the London Irish, in all their variety and colour, now with a brand new foreword by Diarmaid Ferriter. Half a million Irish people left Ireland in the nineteenfifties, forced by decades of economic stagnation. For many, Britain was their only hope of survival.

Binding: Paperback;296 pages; Publisher: New Island Books; Classification: HB; Weight: 428 g; Dimensions: 136 x 214 x 23

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