Coronation time was here

Scotland was a very different country back in 1953 when the last coronation of a UK monarch took place. It was a stuffy, conservative and staunchly unionist land where everybody was expected to know their place. For those of the Irish diaspora in Scotland, their ‘place’ was often the poorer parts of our towns and cities. They endured lives of poor housing, bad health, lack of aspiration and long hard hours of unrelenting work...