An extract from a 'Prime Time Investigates' programme looking at the neglect of generations of economic migrants. These Irish people are forgotten by the country of their birth and often ignored by their adopted home.
| Title: | Lost Generation |
| Clip Duration: | 00:05:29 |
| Material Type: | Video |
| Clip Title: | "My Heart is Still There" |
| Series Title: | Prime Time Investigates |
| Information: | In the fourth programme of this in-depth investigative series, (Monday 22nd December, 9.30pm on RTÉ 1) "Prime Time Investigates: Ireland's Forgotten Generation" examines the underworld of the elderly Irish community in England. Abandoned in hostels and the side-streets of suburban England, the men who built Britain live out the end of their lives in appalling poverty and with problems which include mental illness, alcoholism and isolation. The Irish are the largest ethnic group in England, but also its most disadvantaged. Shot over the course of a week, the programme exposes the neglect of the lost generations of economic migrants who still live in what remains of the Irish ghettos of North London, Coventry and Manchester.Now, forgotten by their country of birth and ignored by their adopted home, they are the remnants of a culture dying on its feet. 'Prime Time Investigates' documents the lives of those who have fallen between the cracks in both England and Ireland. |
| Local Keywords: | Emigration, Emigrants, Poverty, Housing, Alcoholism, Cricklewood, London, Immigrants, Immigration |
| Coverage: | Ireland |
| Genre: | Factual |
| Topic: | Society and Social Issues |
| Provider: | RTÉ |
| Contributor(s): | Paul Rouse (Reporter) |
| Publisher: | RTÉ |
| First Broadcast Channel: | RTÉ One |
| Production Year: | 2003 |
| Country of Production: | IRELAND |
| Original Identifier: | DX61/01727 |
| IPR Restrictions: | Rights Reserved - Free Access |
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| Item Type: | part/extract |
| Colour: | Colour |
| Sound: | Stereo |
| Aspect Ratio: | 16:9 (widescreen) |
| Language: | English (eng) |
| Original Language: | English (eng) |
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