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Sat 04 Apr 2010From Birmingham to Capri
LOCAL HISTORY:EVEN IF you have no ties with Birmingham, if you are interested in culture or history, you’ll enjoy Irish Birmingham: A History, by James Moran (Liverpool University Press, 256pp, £16.95). This meticulously researched book tells how, in the mid-1800s, largely as a result of the Great Famine of the 1840s in Ireland, Birmingham had the fourth-highest Irish-born population of any English or Welsh town, writes NOELEEN DOWLING
By the 1960s, one in six children born there had at least one parent from Ireland. Today, its St Patrick’s Day Parade is attended by an estimated 100,000 people.
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