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‘These things I have done I have done as an Irishman’: Joseph Patrick Connolly, 1921.

This post tells the remarkable story of Jarrow-born Joseph Connolly, who served in the British Army during the Great War, was made a prisoner of war, became an Irish republican, joined the IRA, smuggled guns to Ireland, was imprisoned in Dartmoor, and afterwards worked for the British Labour Party.  ‘These things I have done I […]