Fadgies

hobblewobble said:
lad from boro reckons they are local bake?
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Fadgies where an Irish speaking colony from Belfast.

The story of the original 'fadgies' - an Irish speaking community who created the first urban Gaeltacht in west Belfast - is to be retold at an event in Co Louth.

Writer and lecturer Professor Fionntan de Brun will look back at the native Irish speakers from Omeath, who moved to Belfast in the 19th century.


His presentation, The Fadgies, Omeath's Irish speaking community in Belfast, is part of The Lost Heritage of Oriel, which is due to take place in the Dolmen Centre in Omeath on June 25.

It will examine the world of the fadgies, a group of fish and fruit sellers from Omeath, on the shores of Carlingford Lough, who settled in Belfast after the Famine.

They were native Irish speakers and settled in the Smithfield area of the city and went on to create the first urban Gaeltacht in Belfast, later moving to the Falls Road area.

pure.ulster.ac.uk

‘The Fadgies: ‘an Irish-speaking colony’ in nineteenth-century Belfast'

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yep, fadgies sold in some local bakers in Middlesbrough at least up to the late 60s/early 70s, and cooked by various Irish grannies. Presumably the secret was passed on domestically, but the local bakers disappeared.

If the guy who lived in Monkland Street is around, he may remember them from the bakers on the corner.

Can you still buy them?
 
hobblewobble said:
lad from boro reckons they are local bake?
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masquesmog said:
yep, fadgies sold in some local bakers in Middlesbrough at least up to the late 60s/early 70s, and cooked by various Irish grannies. Presumably the secret was passed on domestically, but the local bakers disappeared.

If the guy who lived in Monkland Street is around, he may remember them from the bakers on the corner.

Can you still buy them?
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defo remember fadgies growing up in the 80's and 90s.. went to uni and thought everyone know about fadgies.. hilarious apparently
 
newyddion said:
defo remember fadgies growing up in the 80's and 90s.. went to uni and thought everyone know about fadgies.. hilarious apparently
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My nana who was an Irish immigrant, used to bake them all the time when we would go and visit her when she lived on Lee Road, Grangetown.

The mention of Ham and Peas Pudding took me back to her house and the smell of home made bread.
 
My paternal gran was always making fadgies and would walk up from North Ormesby to Park End with a bag full once a week. This was in the 60s. Her family origins were Scottish - Skye.
 
There was a big Irish community in Durham in the sixties and seventies so fadges ( not fadgies) were common for us growing up too.
 
I thought this thread was going to be about 'fadgies' appearing on yesterday's 'Bake Off - an extra slice', and getting Hollywood's approval.
 
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