Gilbert Barrington, South Shields school teacher and IRA officer, has featured in several previous posts to this blog. Now it is time to tell the story of this key figure in the history of Irish republicanism in the North East of England. On 24 April 1922, South Shields Education Committee discussed a written request from […]
Tag: Irish Self Determination League
In March 1919, against a background of escalating violence in Ireland, a new nationalist political organisation, the Irish Self-Determination League of Great Britain (ISDL), was created by Sinn Féin to mobilise the support of the Irish living in Britain. And, in the industrial towns and colliery villages of the North East of England, from Ashington […]
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