In 1835, Daniel O’Connell – Ireland’s ‘King Dan’ – came to Tyneside on his first and only visit. This post will tell the story of that visit and examine the role local Ribbonmen, in the guise of Newcastle’s Hibernian Society, had in his tumultuous reception. On 14 September 1835, Daniel O’Connell, Member of Parliament for […]
Month: October 2020
In March 1919, against a background of escalating violence in Ireland, a new nationalist political organisation, the Irish Self-Determination League of Great Britain (ISDL), was created by Sinn Féin to mobilise the support of the Irish living in Britain. And, in the industrial towns and colliery villages of the North East of England, from Ashington […]
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