Gilbert Barrington, South Shields school teacher and IRA officer, has featured in several previous posts to this blog. Now it is time to tell the story of this key figure in the history of Irish republicanism in the North East of England. On 24 April 1922, South Shields Education Committee discussed a written request from […]
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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 […]
This post was originally presented as an on-line talk to the Tyneside Irish Cultural Society in Newcastle upon Tyne on 2 December 2021 to mark the centenary of the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty. As the talk was illustrated, some changes have been made to the following text. 100 years ago next week, on 6 […]
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