Here's a quick read to explain what this blog is about . I hope you can join this journey into the history of Ireland in London's past.

Arrow marks the location of Virginia Chapel at the junction of Virginia Street and Pennington Street, London E1. © Breda Corish In May 2023, you might have noticed someone walking around Whitechapel - stopping and looking around then staring intently at their phone, over and over again. That's what it's like to use digital map overlays on your phone when you're trying to pin down the location of something that's no longer there. On this occasion, I found the location of the

This plaque on the side of Newington Green Primary School records the presence of one of Stoke Newington’s leading intellectual dissenters – that pioneering champion of women’s rights, Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797). For two years, she tried to earn a living by running a girls’ school on this site. When the school failed, she worked in Ireland as a governess – an experience which influenced her groundbreaking work, A Vindication of the Rights of Women.