One hundred and fifty years ago, rival Irish gangs of Fenians and Hibernians fought for supremacy in the village of Witton Park in County Durham. This post will explore the turbulent history of that time. On 21 November 1870, ‘two respectable-looking men’, John Walsh and Thomas Boucher, were arrested by police at Manchester’s Victoria railway […]
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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 […]
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