He was afterwards at Ss Mary and Michael Church, Commercial Road, East London, first as assistant priest, then as rector from June 1896 to April 1901.

Tyrrell's friend, French priest Henri Brémond nonetheless, attended the burial, made the sign of the cross over the grave, and gave an address for which Amigo then suspended him 'a divinis'.

[2] After the cathedral was severely damaged by an incendiary bomb during World War II, the Irish helped defray the cost of rebuilding.

A plaque in St. Patrick's Chapel reads:This Chapel of St. Patrick is the generous gift of the people of Ireland, a tribute of grateful affection to Archbishop Peter Amigo, and in particular to recall his receiving in honour the body of Terence MacSwiney Lord Mayor of Cork which rested in this cathedral 27–28 October 1920, before burial in his native land.

Archbishop Michael Bowen said of Amigo: "He was a larger than life figure, unafraid of controversy, yet whose every action was embued with a great priestly zeal.