Born in County Durham in 1895, John Joseph King served as secretary to Newcastle’s branch of the Irish Self-Determination League (ISDL) from early 1920, helped raise and then command ‘C’ Company of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) in the North East of England, was a sworn member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB), and was […]
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In an earlier post to ‘Exiles in England’, that explored the support provided by Irish nationalist women in the North East of England to the Irish Republican Army (IRA) during the War of Independence, I wrote ‘Unfortunately, no one from any North East branch of Cumann na mBan applied in the 1930s to Dublin for […]
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