On Saturday afternoon 22 March 1908, Tom Kettle, Irish Parliamentary Party MP for East Tyrone, arrived at Shield Row station from Newcastle upon Tyne to be met by crowds of onlookers, a colliery brass band, local politicians and Catholic clergy, regalia-adorned members of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, and Monaghan-born Patrick Duffy, local builder, Stanley […]
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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 […]
In 1835, Daniel O’Connell – Ireland’s ‘King Dan’ – came to Tyneside on his first and only visit. This post will tell the story of that visit and examine the role local Ribbonmen, in the guise of Newcastle’s Hibernian Society, had in his tumultuous reception. On 14 September 1835, Daniel O’Connell, Member of Parliament for […]
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