Some Irish immigrants in England are blinded by prejudice to what the country and English people offer them.
Over 110,000 Irish people have made the Midlands of England their home. Many of them hold a degree of prejudice towards the English.
The Irish community in this area is very large indeed.
Dr Denis McCarthy, a native of Waterford, paid for his medical education while working as a labourer. He now works as a tutor in a London hospital. He feels many Irish people arrive in England with a grudge.
They feel that anything they get out of England is owing to them.
These immigrants do not want to identify with English society and see nothing good in it. They are largely blinded by prejudice to the good points that English people have. Denis McCarthy argues that many of these people are blinded to the fact that England is willing to accept them as citizens of the country.
They hear only of its tyranny, of its extortion, and so on.
One immigrant recalls meeting an Irish man on the ferry who survived by exploiting the English welfare system. He held six national insurance cards, some under false names and others belonging to dead men.
There seems to be a feeling amongst a lot of people that if they can fiddle the English out of something, you know they're doing what their fathers did in 1916.
A former prison governor has seen a lot of Irish people pass through the prison system. Many of these people arrive in England in a broken down condition.
'The Other Man's Grass - The Protected People' was broadcast on 16 April 1969.
This episode of 'The Other Man's Grass' posed the question 'Does our education system prepare people for emigration?'
