This thesis analyses the everyday experiences of Irish migrants to the city of Leeds in the postwar period. It does this through twenty-two oral history interviews conducted to explore three key areas of migrant lives: leisure, work, and home. The thesis therefore investigates the leisure footprint of Irish migration to Leeds. It considers the development of pubs and sports clubs, as well as Irish specific venues and events such as Leeds Irish Centre and the St Patrick's Day parade. It considers how these microcosms of society function and self-police; the role of respectability and authenticity within a culture; and the ways in which symbols of Irish identity are used or shunned in social events and venues. In addition, it assesses changes in the associational cultures of the city, particularly in respect of generational differences in socialising and sports culture. This research also explores the work lives of Irish migrants in the city, contrasting the experiences of earlier and later migrants, and the impact of changes to the education system in Ireland on migrant education and work patterns. It considers commonalities in work narratives, particularly in relation to masculinity, and the effect of wider educational choice on working patterns and self-perception. It analyses the ways in which class, gender and age can make a difference to people's work history, and how they reflect on this. It also scrutinises how migrants incorporate the way they are perceived by the host population, particularly during the Northern Irish Troubles, and how this can lead to internalised oppression, and the exclusion of those whose experiences do not fit with the dominant narrative. Finally, this work details the ways in which 'home' is expressed, embodied and felt by Irish migrants to Britain. It considers abstract elements – how 'home' is expressed through poetry, or the language used to describe home, and the rhetorical tropes, such as land and soil, contained therein. It also interrogates the ways in which migrants spoke of their new home in Leeds, and particularly their first impressions of the city. It looks at how second-generation migrants conceive of home, and of identity. The more concrete elements of home are also covered: the relationship migrants have with food; their physical homes; their negotiation of living arrangements; and the way in which household objects tell stories of home and identity. This thesis thus builds on the existing corpus of post-war Irish migratory history, and uses an interdisciplinary approach to provide a deeper analysis of certain aspects of this, using Leeds as a localised city case-study. It explores the physical and social legacy of Irish migration, the changes to the migrant experience, and the reasons behind this.