RAILSCOT | Brunel was the engineer, but the Irish did the work [South London News]

Brunel was the engineer, but the Irish did the work [South London News]

05/02/2021
Harbour is quay to a new era [Herald Scotland]

Date: 05/02/2021

A museum named after a founding father of Victorian engineering will pay homage to the enormous contribution the Irish community made to a true feat of British construction.

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Brunel was the engineer, but the Irish did the work

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Forget the luck of the Irish, we each owe a lot to the pluck of the Irish, writes Will Brook. A museum named after a founding father of Victorian engineering will pay homage to the enormous contrib

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Brunel was the engineer, but the Irish did the work [South London News]

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