"JOSEPH STALIN stayed in a Rowton House in 1907. Jack London and
George Orwell both wrote of these workingmen’s hostels. Arlington House,
the last and the biggest of them, was built by the philanthropist Lord
Rowton in Camden in 1905, and has been home to more Irish labourers than
any other building outside the Emerald Isle, an Irish charity says. But
those who could moved on, and over time a handsome place intended to be
a decent haven for low-paid but clean-living workers became the haunt
of drunks and drug-abusers. It was known as the biggest doss-house in

Arlington House is a large hostel for single men in Camden Town. It has been home to many thousands of workers, poets and visionaries over the 105 years of its long history. Among those who have spent the night under its Victorian gothic roof are George Orwell, Brendan Behan, Ho Chi Min and Patrick Kavanagh the Irish poet who said in his autobiographical book The Green Fool:

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Aisling Support Worker Charlie Conquest & Cian McLaughlin [left] with Cian's painting of 'Pops Johnny' which was auctioned at the Molesworth St. Gallery in Dublin on 28th November raising euro15,000 for Aisling.

Recently, Cian visited the Aisling offices in London to present the cheque, and copies of his paintings...

From today, we'll be using a new Content Management System to publish regularly updated news content to Aisling.org.uk.

If you link to http://www.aisling.org.uk/drupal/?q=rss.xml - our RSS feed, you can publish automatically updated Aisling News Stories on your own site.

Older news articles can still be found on this site at http://www.aisling.org.uk/html/index.php

All articles from the inception of this site, and also of the organization which helped to spawn Aisling - the Arlington House Irish Tenants Association - are still available here.

The entire archive [and the whole site] is searchable using our custom-Google search box.

This is a test post for our new content management system - which will hopefully enable Aisling to keep the site up to date more easily.... It's really just as simple as typing in what you want to say - OR - cutting'n'pastin' from another document.

It should be easy-peasey. Allegedly... See www.drupal.com

- Jim

Drupal 6.1 installed relatively seamlessly.

Manual install - with default modules.

www.drupal.com