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The Mill Tavern

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The Mill Tavern
The Mill Tavern
The Mill Tavern
The Mill Tavern
The Mill Tavern
The Mill Tavern
The Mill Tavern
The Mill Tavern
The Mill Tavern
The Mill Tavern
The Mill Tavern
The Mill Tavern
The Mill Tavern
The Mill Tavern
The Mill Tavern
Phone:
+44 191 430 1115

Hours:
Sunday11am - 11pm
Monday11am - 11pm
Tuesday11am - 11pm
Wednesday11am - 11pm
Thursday11am - 11pm
Friday11am - 11pm
Saturday11am - 11pm


The Irish diaspora refers to Irish people and their descendants who live outside Ireland. The phenomenon of migration from Ireland is recorded since early Medieval times, but it is only possible to quantify it from around 1700: since then between 9 and 10 million people born in Ireland have emigrated. This is more than the population of Ireland at its historical peak in the 1840s of 8.5 million. The poorest of them went to Great Britain, especially Liverpool; those who could afford it went further, including almost 5 million to the United States.After 1840, emigration from Ireland became a massive, relentless, and efficiently managed national enterprise. In 1890 40% of Irish-born people were living abroad. By the 21st century, an estimated 80 million people worldwide claimed some Irish descent, which includes more than 36 million Americans who claim Irish as their primary ethnicity. As recently as the second half of the nineteenth century, the majority of Irish emigrants spoke Irish as their first language. This had social and cultural consequences for the cultivation of the language abroad, including innovations in journalism. The language continues to be cultivated abroad by a small minority as a literary and social medium.Ciarán Cannon is the Republic of Ireland's Minister of State for the Diaspora. The Irish diaspora outside Ireland and the UK is largely assimilated
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