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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This post will explore the history of the Irish Labour Party in Gateshead and highlight the key role played by Mary Gunn in this important, but today almost forgotten, organisation that eased the transfer of Irish nationalist allegiance in the town to the British Labour Party. In 2018, in celebration of the centenary of women […]
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