Month: November 2020

1914: Irish Volunteers on Tyneside.

Post author By Steve Shannon
Post date November 16, 2020
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After the third Irish Home Rule Bill was introduced in parliament in April 1912, an armed militia was raised in Ulster to resist Home Rule and by December 1912 there were twenty battalions of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) in Belfast alone.[1] It was inevitable that Irish nationalists would respond to defend Home Rule and […]

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M J Kelly, Newcastle’s Fenian school teacher.

Post author By Steve Shannon
Post date November 9, 2020
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In February 1869, police in Liverpool arrested Michael James Kelly, a young Irish picture dealer and stationer, at his shop in Tithebarn Street for ‘seditiously exposing to view and selling a certain wicked, malicious, and seditious print against our Lady the Queen and Government’.[1] This ‘seditious print’, a chromo-lithograph imported from New York, was entitled […]

Tags Collegiate School Newcastle, Fenians, Invincibles, Irish Land League, Phoenix Park