‘No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs’: Irish Times readers recall encountering notorious signs in Britain

Photograph of unknown origin showing 'No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs' sign donated in the 1980s to researchers. Photograph: Archive of the Irish in Britainin the 1950s”, according to Patrick W Hurley, who arrived in the English capital from Waterford in 1955. “The common form of advertising was a plain postcard held in place by a drawing pin in a glass-fronted box on the wall or stuck with Sellotape on the inside of the window.

Likewise, Irish men were prosecuted for indecent exposure if they were caught urinating outside, often after a Saturday night socialising. The police chose to charge the men under the criminal code which came with a mandatory prison sentence. Hurley described the Irish as an “easy target”. Cullen said: “Like many other Irish, I do not need physical evidence to prove racial prejudice.” He said when he arrived back to London in 1982 after spending seven years in America, “I was very conscious of my accent and my wife, then girlfriend, was forced to do a lot of the talking”. At the time there was an increase in anti-Irish sentiment linked to the IRA’s bombing campaign in England.

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