Newtown was a residential area of Cardiff, Wales that was also known as 'Little Ireland' because of its population of Irish families.

[1] In the years following the Great Famine of Ireland of 1845 hundreds of Irish families began to arrive in Cardiff, often travelling as 'ballast' in ships from Cork and Waterford.

[3] In 1850 the South Wales Railway (from Swansea to Chepstow) had been opened,[4] separating Adamsdown from Newtown.

At Lewis's funeral Irishmen with pick axes had to stand guard to ward off any further trouble.

[10] In 1999 Cardiff Bay Development Corporation gave £10,000 toward the cost of a memorial to commemorate the Newtown community.