Fresh census data for England and Wales shows Irish people and their descendants are almost twice as likely to be pensioners as the overall population
The figures also reveal that there are more older “White Irish” women than men, with more than 35 per cent of women in the category aged over 65, versus less than 29 per cent of men.
Meanwhile, there were no centenarians among the small cohort of people who officially identified as “gypsy or Irish Traveller”. Just 70 people who put themselves in this category had made it into their 90s, according to the ONS’s raw data. “There has been a sharp decline in recent decades in Irish immigration,” said Bronwen Walter, emerita professor of Irish diaspora studies at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge and one of the foremost British experts on Irish immigration.BBC documentary’s Irish Famine ‘extermination’ claim ‘astonishingly irresponsible’, historians argue“The biggest bulge of Irish immigration was in the 1950s and 1960s.
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