Brexit remains a divisive issue for Irish in London
While the result was disappointing for some, others have no regrets about voting ‘leave’
Elephant and Castle in south London: in the 1950s, the area was filled with Irish men working on building sites and Irish women working in factories. Photograph: Bert Hardy/Picture Post/Getty Images
Painted on a wall in Southwark’s Central Market is a recipe for potato bread, which carefully explains how much flour and baking powder is needed for the traditional loaf. The mural is not some random graffiti but a work of public art in honour of the Irish community which once dominated the area, but has since moved on.
Nearby, in a community centre, Patrick Griffin and his mother Eileen reflect on the outcome of the Brexit referendum. Having moved to London in 1959, she is frail but she was determined to vote last June.