Despite exhortations from press and pulpit, some 24,000 poverty-pressed young men and women emigrated last year from the Republic of Ireland to prosperous, Protestant Great Britain. In the past ten years the Roman Catholic population of Great Britain (now 3,000,000) has increased by more than 750,000, primarily because of the influx of Irish workers. Most of the Irish settle in the big cities of Britain, work hard and long, and live in drab and depressing slum tenements.
The young men often go wild, drink excessively and brawl frequently. Innocent young colleens are sometimes lured into prostitution. Observed a Roman Catholic priest in...
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