{"id":31922,"date":"2023-03-21T10:37:46","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T10:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/cjsnews\/?p=31922"},"modified":"2023-03-21T14:33:14","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T14:33:14","slug":"little-ireland-the-tell-tale-signs-of-cardiffs-forgotten-irish-community-in-newtown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/cjsnews\/little-ireland-the-tell-tale-signs-of-cardiffs-forgotten-irish-community-in-newtown\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Little Ireland’: The tell-tale signs of Cardiff’s forgotten Irish community in ‘Newtown’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

They came from Cork and Waterford after 1845 to make their homes in Cardiff<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more than 100 years, a handful of streets in the Welsh capital thronged with a close-knit Irish community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Newtown was a residential area of the city, not too far from where Cardiff Central train station stands today. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It consisted of 200 houses and six streets: North Williams Street, Pendoylan Street, Pendoylan Place, Roland Street, Rosemary Street and Ellen Street.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you haven\u2019t heard of Newtown, that\u2019s because it was demolished in the 1970s to make way for office buildings. All that remains now is a memorial garden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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