Видео

Amazing work

Many nationalities built London and the UK: British, Polish, Irish. It was clearly impossible for the huge workforce needed to dig the British canals and ports and construct the extensive British railway system to have migrated from Ireland. Labour from all over the world was involved, just as it is today in the construction of British infrastructure like motorways, Crossrail and HS2.

✨ "promo sm"

All you are doing is trashing the interiors. You are not restoring original features. Irish building, standards of electrical wiring, preservation of interior features are pitiful. Just compare UK standards with Ireland and see how pitiful it is. The Irish lack taste and are really dated in their approach.

The facts are irish built the uk give credit where credit is due

Going back in history, rebuilt what was our country...irony!

Balfour Beatty

ThNk you to all the irish men and women before me and i am 72 and i am young.

Best thing theyy did allong with hard work was deceny,giving people respect along with a bit of craic.up the irish.

Have we all gone?

Well fair enough but have w E disappeared now??

They were here for the work and the money, but their contribution to the rebuild of English cities should never be overlooked and never be forgotten, they were a powerful force ☘️

There are not there anymore Irish buildings are buried with their wife's in Hammersmith and Fulham and kensal green.

Jubilee Line Extension in the mid 90s… worst year of my life 😢 Berlin a few years later…. Best time of my life 🇩🇪

NEVER forget that it was OUR Irish blood, sweat and tears that built beautiful NYC and what we see there today. The architecture, foundation, canals, sewer systems, subway stations etc. We built the majority of America and don't let them take that from us. ✊

People today are lying saying our Irish people didn't build NYC. They are trying to say slaves built NYC. I can't stand the hate and dismissal our people receive today all for the sake of inclusion.

Irish Babe

Good job ye said Belmullet

𝓟Ř𝔬𝓂𝔬𝐒ϻ 🤪

Thank you so much for this documentary

She says they built communities but Kilburn was a community of terrorists & terrorist sympathisers who used to jump on a bus & detonate bombs in the West End. Glad they went home.

But they were connected to subversives. If they really did build the place, why did they then blow it up? It’s Irish!

Low bru

Navvies!

The new Irish emigrating now are highly educated.....no more Irish contractors abusing their own!

DIRTY VILLAGE. Third world country..😖😶‍🌫️

Beautiful

Wow film is superb. Great shots, music and comments. I love the shots

My dad came to London in around 1965. He worked on so many different places between there and Southampton, Kent, etc.. The stories about the drinking and womanising and violence were absolutely shocking. Still are. He was a rough, hard man.

I was in Camden in the late 90s in Rosie o gradys watching a football International, Ireland against someone on the TV , when Ireland scored ,the commentator commented something like "and they will be going mad in the pubs of north london" The dozen or so of us in the pub laughed. The Irish were gone by then. The era was gone..

A woman who has pretty much erased her ulster accent is talking about Irish pride

Opinions from young ones and academics who never worked a day in their lives in the tunnels and buildings. Get the real men to tell the story or else "feck off"!

My dad and six brothers , and three sisters ,all came over from Sligo in the late fifties early sixties ,I think they should erect a statue in honour of the Irish workforce who rebuilt Britain' during the 50,s 60,s and 70,s ,I'm proud of my heritage.

Thank the english we gave you work, it was all the nation's that built London, jesus,

Very proud of my parents, relatives and all their friends who worked hard to make a better life for themselves and everyone around them

Without a doubt the Irish built most of the buildings in London and beyond between the 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's and 90's, my ol fella came over in 51 and went straight on the tools as a chippy and 4 of his son's followed suit including meself, it was hard work but a great craic at the same time and it is great to see our children are not having to lift a shovel or a hammer, instead now they are the engineers, the architects, the site agents and fair play to em, even though it was great money and a good craic, it was also hard on the body, you will see plenty of good men now all twisted and bent from them days, horrible to see but now it is good to see our youngsters being educated so they don't need break their backs to earn a pound🇮🇪.

Makes you proud to be irish. The builders of the world, love my heritage 💚

C cv. Cc

yes,and so on in America.thank you berne.

Paddy has being going to England a long time now I was happy to go in 1960 money was good I get a small pension now I don't say no to it

New York is farm land.

irish pride my dad still builds this city, hes the welder u see way up on the buildings. 💚💚 Chicago this is amazing ty.

waster

If the Irish are so wonderful and built London (and practically everything else in Britain, it seems) why don't they build the same in Ireland, and stop hanging on British coat tails?

agh the best part of this video is the young fella reciting a song as a poem written by Dominic Behan and the young fella I'd say never worked a shovel in his life nor will he with baby soft hands aww poor baba.

I go to that school its good