Title: Were there refugees from Ireland to the United Kingdom between 1916-1948? I ask because my granddad may have fled the Irish Civil War. - Quora
Headings: Were there refugees from Ireland to the United Kingdom between 1916-1948? I ask because my granddad may have fled the Irish Civil War.
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Answered 3 years ago · Author has 7.6K answers and 9.9M answer views
The Irish Civil war was not like the current Syrian Civil war. It didn’t produce huge numbers of refugees, the fighting being almost exclusively between fighting men. The exception in this period is some members of the Protestant and Unionist communities who could legitimately be labeled refugees and fled to the UK after Independence. Incidents like Destruction of Irish country houses (1919-1923) - Wikipedia and Dunmanway killings - Wikipedia contributed to that. However it is a complex subject because there were plenty of big houses which were not burnt out and large numbers of Protestants who continued to live safely in the Republic of Ireland. While your grandfather being a refugee can’t be ruled out, the vast, vast, vast majority of the large numbers of people who left Ireland for the U
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Answered 3 years ago · Author has 1.3K answers and 2M answer views
Tens of thousands of people emigrated to the UK from Ireland during this period for a variety of reasons. You mention as a ‘refugee’ from the Civil War or its aftermath and there were many people of protestant backgrounds who left Ireland because they did not believe the new Free State would be a tolerant or safe place for them to remain. ( 300 stately homes were burned in the period 1919-23.)