irish

• would have been few industrial developments without Irish labourours (tackled hardest jobs), contributed to the building on:

  ~roads

  ~railways

  ~canals
• feb 1847~ 6245 navvies employed to build the EDINBURGH & NORTHERN railway line in FIFE

  scots: irish: english

  4102: 2110: 32
• THOMAS LIPTON

  father worked in a Glasgow mill, saved up & bought a small grocer's shop.

  Tommy boy opened HIS first shop at 20 (selling reasonably priced groceries)

  by 30 he was a millionaire- famous for Lipton tea &chain of shops
• JAMES CONNOLLY

  born: 1868, Edinburgh

  briefly served in the army before moving into left-wing politics. became secretary for the Scottish socialist federation (ssf)

  moved to Ireland: 1896

  ~ 1912 founded Irish labour party

  REMEMBERED for his role in the Irish citizens army's 1916 Easter uprising- shot by firing squad
• john wheatley (1869, moved: 1876) was a miner who was involved in left-wing politics, joined independent labour party in 1907 - campaigned against conscription & rent rises

  elected as councilor then mp in 1922 for Glasgow shettleton

  1924- minister of health in 1st labour government.

  remembered for housing act 1924 - 500,000 affordable houses built
• football clubs:

  • hibernian - 1875
  • celtic - 1887
  • dundee united (nee hibernian) - 1909