London Irish Centre opened in 1955, providing accommodation (serving as a hostel in its early years), employment support and a starting point to those arriving. The Camden Square location was chosen for its proximity to Euston Station, where Irish people disembarked their trains from Holyhead Ferry Port. The London Irish Centre soon became the hub of Irish social activity, with dinners, dances and social functions; the settings of friendships made, spouses met, and the formation of a vibrant Irish community in London. At the core of the Centre's focus remains providing assistance to Irish expatriates in London, whether they have been there for
Cultural-historical activity theory configured through use in complex social situations. From the 1960s onwards, starting in the global South, and independently from the mainstream "European" developmental line, Leontiev's core "Objective Activity" concept has been used in a Social Development context. In the Organization Workshop's Large Group Capacitation-method, "objective/ized activity" acts as the core causal principle which postulates that, in order to change the mind-set of (large groups of) individuals, we need to start with changes to their activity – and/or to the object that "suggests" their activity. In Leontievian vein, the Organization Workshop is all about semiotically-mediated activities through which (large groups of)