Little Ireland was a slum district of

Manchester Manchester () is a city in Greater Manchester, England. It had a population of 552,000 in 2021. It is bordered by the Cheshire Plain to the south, the Pennines to the north and east, and the neighbouring city of Salford to the west. The t ...

Lancashire Lancashire ( , ; abbreviated Lancs) is the name of a historic county, ceremonial county, and non-metropolitan county in North West England. The boundaries of these three areas differ significantly. The non-metropolitan county of Lancash ...

, England, in the early 19th century. It was inhabited from about 1827 to 1847 by poor

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immigrants, and was south of Oxford Road railway station, enclosed by the railway line and the loop in the river. The area was demolished to make way for the Manchester South Junction Railway line. In his book ''

The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844 ''The Condition of the Working Class in England'' (german: Die Lage der arbeitenden Klasse in England) is an 1845 book by the German philosopher Friedrich Engels, a study of the industrial working class in Victorian England. Engels' first book, ...

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. It is commemorated by a red plaque on 8 Great Marlborough Street, about half-way between New Wakefield Street and Hulme Street.Hartwell, Clare (2001) ''Manchester''. (Pevsner Architectural Guides.) London: Penguin ; p. 179

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