Tag Archives: Emigration

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In the past four years, 300,000 people have emigrated from the Republic of Ireland; four out of 10 of them were aged 15 – 24.

Half of those aged between 18 and 24 have considered emigrating.

Four out of 10 adults aged between 25 and 34 have also thought about leaving the country.

The survey found that just over one quarter of those aged between 35 and 54 has also considered moving abroad.

 

300,000 Irish people emigrate in four years (BBC)

(Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland)

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Jennifer O’Leary writes:

1913 Unfinished Business is an activist group working to reinvigorate class politics in Dublin using the centenary of the Lockout as an inspiration.‘We’re Not Leaving’ is a public meeting of young people to fight forced emigration. Emigration during the recession has reached famine level, with 200 people leaving the country every day. This social disaster is a direct result of the conditions facing young people in the Irish economy: youth unemployment, precarious work, unpaid internships, higher education fee hikes and grant cuts. How can young workers, students and the unemployed work in solidarity across our different struggles to tackle the challenges that unify us? How can we stay and fight? The public meeting will build towards a youth bloc on the May Day march in Dublin.

 

1913 Unfinished Business (Facebook)

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He’s been at the typewriter.

At the core of the Government’s strategy is the creation of jobs for our people. While the unemployment problem has stabilised, I acknowledge that far too many people cannot find work, or have had to leave the country to get a job. Our aim is to make Ireland, by 2016, the best small country in the world in which to do business and to create jobs.

 

Enda Kenny, Together We Have Started To Turn The Tide (Enda Kenny, Irish Times)

Meanwhile…

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The Working Abroad Expo in the RDS, Ballsbridge, Dublin, on Saturday.

(Wanderley Massafelli, Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland)

A booklet on moving to England, by Father Eamonn Gaynor, published by the Furrow Trust, Maynooth in 1962.

In chapter three, entitled ‘A Catholic in Britain’, he warns, ‘You are leaving a country where the light of the Christian way-of-life shines clearly and are entering the darkness and confusion of twentieth-century materialism (…) You will soon feel the attraction of the deadly materialism of modern life, perhaps for the first time.’ He recommends finding different digs if the landlady will not serve fish on a Friday, and writes ‘avoid a mixed marriage’.

 

Good times.

Shamrock Express booklet (National Museums Of Northern Ireland)

Thanks Sibling of Daedalus