Whitechapel | Ireland In London

Photo taken on Pennington Street, London E1 with an arrow showing the original location of the eighteenth-century Catholic Virginia Chapel

Religion and riots in Irish Whitechapel: Virginia Street E1

An underground car park on Virginia Street, London E1 today marks the spot where the eighteenth-century Irish population of Wapping and Whitechapel used to discreetly attend religious services in a Roman Catholic mission chapel.

18th Century

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1852 cartoon titled ‘A court for King Cholera’ by John Leech, published in Punch magazine 23 (1852), p. 139. Image source: Wellcome Collection, via Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license.

Death in Irish Whitechapel: Cholera in Blue Anchor Yard E1, 1848

Looking from Cartwright Street towards Blue Anchor Yard, Royal Mint Estate on the site of what was Rosemary Lane, Whitechapel E1....

19th Century

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Religion and riots in Irish Whitechapel: Virginia Street E1

Death in Irish Whitechapel: Cholera in Blue Anchor Yard E1, 1848

Finding Ireland in the History of London