Binghamstown
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Sep 22, 2026
Buaileann an tUachtarán Connolly le Coatbridge Irish Diaspora Community
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6:09Catherine ConnollySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And amongst many, many things that he said in that article, and I strongly recommend that everyone reads it, I'm just going to read a little extract from that.
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6:19Catherine ConnollySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
He said, this wing for the Navies and the Tatey Hookers, for the young men who left Achill and Belmont 75 years ago to dig tunnels in London and pig spuds in the north of England and indeed in Scotland, men who lived in filth and squalor so they could send a few shillings back to Binghamstown and Inishbeagle, teenagers forever frozen in arrested development, mentally the same age as the day they left, physically beaten by time and dirt.
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6:50Catherine ConnollySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And he said, this when too is for the young women who ended up in South Cove and Broad Street in Boston, in Bay Ridge in Brooklyn, in Cleveland, not of course by choice, but by necessity.
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7:03Catherine ConnollySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The mayo they left was the same mayo that now exists.