This post was originally given as a paper entitled ‘An analysis of advanced nationalist activity amongst the Irish diaspora in the North East of England during the 1890s’ at ‘The Irish Diaspora and Revolution 1845-1945’ conference organised in 2012 by the Department of History, National University of Ireland, Maynooth. Some small changes have been made […]
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With branches from Bishop Auckland to Wallsend, the Ladies’ Land League in the early 1880s was the first nationalist organisation for Irish women in the North East of England. This post will explore the history of this pioneering women’s organisation. In the preface to her book Unmanageable Revolutionaries, Margaret Ward explained that it was not […]
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