This post explores the background to a heated night in Newcastle upon Tyne in February 1884, when Michael Davitt, former Fenian gun-runner and ex-Dartmoor prisoner, came face to face with Tyneside Fenians opposed to the Irish Land League, the very cause that had defined his nationalism since 1879. The Amnesty Association was formed in Dublin […]
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Across the North East of England from the 1850s to the 1920s, wherever the Irish lived and worked, men, usually unskilled and poorly educated, dedicated themselves to the cause of Irish nationalism. This post looks at the life of one of these men, Stephen Bannon from Jarrow. On Monday 19 February 1883, newspaper readers across […]
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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