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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Content: Not impossible though. By coincidence my father was recently telling me about people in his village who had to flee the country after the civil war or face arrest and imprisonment, long before he was born but he knew of them. Every one of them fled to America where they would be free of suspicion from the authorities, something they probably wouldn’t have experienced in Britain. So I would say that its unlikely that Britain would be their destination. I’m not sure what records you might check. Essent
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, I live in Cork
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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.