In 1938, Dr Mark Ryan, who had joined the Irish Republican Brotherhood in Lancashire in 1865, declared in the foreword to his book ‘Fenian Memories’, that ‘next to my religion, Fenianism has been the greatest thing in my life’. Not all Irish nationalists, however, who had enthusiastically embraced Fenianism as young men remained loyal to […]
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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 […]
On Saturday afternoon 22 March 1908, Tom Kettle, Irish Parliamentary Party MP for East Tyrone, arrived at Shield Row station from Newcastle upon Tyne to be met by crowds of onlookers, a colliery brass band, local politicians and Catholic clergy, regalia-adorned members of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, and Monaghan-born Patrick Duffy, local builder, Stanley […]
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 […]
Terence MacSwiney, Lord Mayor of Cork, died in Brixton prison on 25 October 1920 on the seventy-fourth day of his hunger strike, and was buried the following Sunday afternoon in his home city.[1] That same afternoon, in ‘scenes unparalleled in the history of Newcastle’, a symbolic funeral procession for the ‘Great Irish Patriot and Christian […]
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