From Ireland to Norway.

From: Contemporary Review | Date: January 1, 2005| Author: Emmett, Nicholas | Copyright information

THERE was a leading article in a newspaper some time ago describing the plight of many Irish people who went to work in Britain in the fifties. The article described the predicament of many of those now elderly, poor people, and the disgraceful lack of funds offered by the Irish state to help them. Chance saved me from becoming one of those unfortunate people.

I was born in 1935 and began factory work in Dublin at fourteen. In 1954, when I was nineteen I went to work in ...

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