Was Middlesbrough’s John Walsh part of the conspiracy that planned and executed the brutal Phoenix Park killings that so shocked Britain and Ireland in 1882? This post will examine the life of this ‘extreme Irish nationalist’, who died in exile in New York in 1891. The assassination of the Chief Secretary for Ireland, Lord Frederick […]
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This post looks at the life of Michael Kelly, headmaster of the first Catholic secondary school for boys in Newcastle and ‘an ardent Fenian’, who moved to the United States in 1883 in the aftermath of the Phoenix Park killings. In February 1869, police in Liverpool arrested Michael James Kelly, a young Irish picture dealer […]
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