Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Palestine in London n.

[play on the holy land n.]

St Giles, Bloomsbury, mainly occupied by the poor Irish and a well-known criminal slum.

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[UK]‘An Amateur’ Real Life in London II 165: Palestine in London, or the Holy Land, includes that portion of the parish of St. Giles, Bloomsbury, inhabited by the lower Irish.