Quote Originally Posted by CardiffIrish2 View Post
There was an Australian film called 'leaving of Liverpool' in the early 1990s about it.
Fictional characters but really sad and I remember nearly filling up as 'working class hero' by a John Lennon played over the credits.
'As soon as you're born they make you feel small' and al that ...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2431286/

Similar stuff went on in Ireland to USA, it makes you realise how better folk are looked after now and how current folk underestimate the life they have now in comparison ,the poor were so badly cared for back in the day.