Introduction.[1] The story of Mary Gunn and the Irish Labour Party has featured in a previous post on this website Mary Gunn: Gateshead’s Irish nationalist and Labour activist.[2] This post sets that story against the background of Irish Catholic settlement in Gateshead from the mid-nineteenth century, and shows how, by the late 1920s, the Labour […]
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The Tyneside Irish Brigade, the only Irish corps raised in Britain during the Great War, was the crowning achievement of the pre-1916 Irish nationalist organisations in Britain. This post, which was originally given as a paper at the ‘Minorities and the First World War’ conference organised in 2014 by the University of Chester, tells the […]
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1914: Irish Volunteers on Tyneside.
For a few months in 1914, companies of Irish Volunteers were raised on Tyneside. This post will explore their brief history, reveal why the movement failed to catch the imagination of Irish nationalists in the North East, and suggest that the Volunteers’ real importance was as the forerunner of the British Army’s Tyneside Irish Brigade. […]
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