a jamaican, a courser
and an irishman
walk into a bar
with a proprietor
to speak to
— Jerome Berglund
“Archival research and reports (such as from the 1990s Commission for Racial Equality) indicate that housing and window advertisements in 1950s and 1960s Britain frequently used terms like “no coloureds”, “no West Indians”, or “no Irish”… Many people who lived through the 1950s and 1960s recall seeing or hearing about exclusionary lodging or pub signs directed at Irish people and Commonwealth immigrants”
