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Irish in Bristol 1685-1835

The Irish, c.1685-1835  

Although they made up only a small proportion of the city's manual workforce, Irish navvies worked alongside English ones on the cleaning and then the reconstruction of Bristol's floating harbour.  

Content generated during research for the paperback book 'Bristol: Ethnic Monorities and the City 1000-2001' (ISBN 13 : 978-1-86077-477-5 ) for the England's Past for Everyone series

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