Younger London Irish now favour Hackney or Clapham. READ MOREThe story fitted a stereotype: that of the older Irish man who moved to London years ago, perhaps “to work on the buildings”, and ended up alone. The Irish Times attended the service in the small crematorium chapel, flooded with light beneath a glass dome. “Every pub on Holloway Road also used to be an Irish pub with Irish music,” Corbyn said. He used to travel between Ireland and England, and sometimes Scotland, “when things were harder for the Irish in London”.
