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The Irish in Britain Census Campaign: "How Irish Are You?"
Thank you...
A trip down memory lane...
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Westminster launch - 26 January 2011 |
Terry Christian - final speech at Westminster Launch |
Member organisations - Westminster Launch |
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Barbara Jones - Embassy of Ireland, Enda Brady - Sky News, Niamh Kelly - Irish Post, Pat Wright - Birmingham Irish Community Forum - Westminster Launch |
Seamus McGarry - former FIS Chair, Chris Ruane MP, Alisdair McDonnell MP - SDLP, Barbara Jones - Embassy of Ireland - Westminster Launch |
Wales Launch - 16 March 2011 - Welsh Assembly |
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Birmingham Launch - 18 February 2011 |
Leeds Launch - 26 February 2011 |
St Pat's Day - London - 13 March 2011 |
Some media snippets...*
General - off and online
The Independent - "Stand up, tick box and be counted"
News West Midlands - "How Irish Are You?"
Liverpool Echo - letter to editor
Islington Tribune - "Tick the Irish Box"
Wimbledon SW19 - Census 2011
24 Dash.com - "Housing Chief Makes BME Community Plea"
Irish Post
"Second generation must use Census opportunity"
"Census roadshow ticks all the right boxes"
"Show pride in your Irish roots says Tralee Rose"
Irish Times
"I'm Christian, I'm Irish and I'm proud"
"Campaign to urge Irish and descendants in Britain to register ethnicity in census"
"Irish in UK urged to make it count"
Irish World
"Census laucnhes in Birmingham"
"Tick the Irish Box on March 27"
Blogs/forums/misc
PCS Union - "How Irish Are You?"
The Harp News - "Birmingham Irish community launch census campaign to combat underrepresentation"
Labour Uncut - "The worldwide Irish AGM - St Paddy's Day"
Blog: Thomas Parker - "Enjoy the Craic. Just one favour..."
Catholic Voice of Lancaster - "The Irish in Britain launch census campaign to combat underrepresentation"
British Religion in Numbers - "Census snippets"
Manchester Irish Festival - online
Irish Chaplaincy in Britain - online
Blog: Louise Baldock - Census 2011 - "Merseyside Irish & Proud campaign"
Politics.ie - "Irish in Britain Census campaign"
MyBrum.co.uk - "The Irish Heritage Group ask How Irish Are You?"
Digbeth.org - online
ByrneGroup.co.uk - online
Talkceltic.net - online forum
Tyneside Irish Centre - online
Blog: Clerical Whispers - "Churches urged to promote Irish"
Independent Catholic News - "Churches urged to promote Irish registration on UK census"
Blog: Irish bloglog
Bradford Irish Centre - online
Clifton Diocese - online
So what's next...?
It will be 18 months before the numeric results from the 2011 Census are published, so till then we won’t know how successful we’ve been at encouraging all the Irish people in Britain to tick the Irish ethnicity box.
In the meantime we are delighted with the way the community (that includes you) has embraced the campaign to make it its own and at just how many people came out to celebrate their Irish roots. Indeed, the number of individuals like you who played a part was incredible and it is to you whom we owe a debt of gratitude.
The campaign is a fantastic boost to our work as we endeavour always to put the issues of the Irish community right at the heart of the government’s agenda. There is however, always more to do. We will be harnessing the momentum of the campaign to continue to serve, strengthen and celebrate the Irish community in Britain. We hope you’ll be with us all the way…
*The Federation of Irish Societies is not responsible for the content on external sites.