Over the past few centuries, the racialization and treatment of the Irish people in Britain has changed dramatically. This is partly due to the paradigm surrounding the dynamic and fluctuating relationship between the two nations. On the colonization, subjugation and simeonization of the Irish people, as British subjects, in the 18th and 19th centuries; to the dichotomy created around the question for the British government of “What to do with the Irish?” ", arising from the formation of the Irish Free State and further compounded by the subsequent withdrawal of the Irish from the Commonwealth, during the period surrounding the formation of the Republic of Ireland in 1949. Subsequently, the Irish living in Britain were now perceived as "white" and carelessly assimilated through "forced inclusion" into a newly constructed and imagined homogenized British society arising from the aftermath of the Second World War. (Hickman 1998). This article aims, through the use of the historical element of the sociological imagination, to examine the impact of racialization on Irish ethnic communities living in Britain. First, the essay will define and elaborate the concepts of “race” and “racialization,” as well as the relevance of this concept to ethnic groups. The article will then go on to examine the mechanisms by which the Irish were radicalized, paying particular attention to the types of characteristics attributed to the Irish over the years. The essay will then expand on the findings of sociological research conducted around the impact of racialization on British residents of Irish descent and their experiences through the manifestations of anti-Irish racism at institutional and personal levels..... . middle of paper......naked and marginalized, despite their new status as “White”. The proof is the institutionally uncontrolled signage that adorned some establishments in 1960s Britain, “No dogs, no blacks and no Irish”. According to Hickman, "there is ample evidence that Irish people living in Britain experienced more health problems, worse housing and more unemployment than can be explained by their demographic and socio-economic status alone." This phenomenon is further compounded by statistics showing that “Irish men constitute the only migrant group with higher mortality in Britain than in their country of origin” (Hickman 1998). This is further reinforced when the mortality rates of second generation Irish men and women living in Britain are examined, revealing that they are "significantly higher than those of all men and women..." living in the UK..