From African slums to the streets of Northern Ireland – Kenyan-born social worker encourages diversity
Jacintah McCaffrey’s nearly 25-year career in social work in Northern Ireland began in 2001 with her first role at a children ...
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Decades before Irish were Chicago political royalty, they lived in a ramshackle slum called Kilgubbin
The name became symbolic of slums where poor Irish immigrants lived ... And when the Great Famine devastated Ireland in the 1840s, Chicago was a destination for thousands of Irish people fleeing ...
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Ireland’s bubonic plague scare in 1900
While the Spanish Flu pandemic is rightly associated with the early 1900s, Ireland was also faced with ... at high risk of an outbreak due to its slums and tenements and poor sanitation - all ...