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‘Sympathy for the Pope’: Irish nationalists in the North East of England and the threat to Pope Pius IX, 1860.

Post author By Steve Shannon
Post date February 2, 2022
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After the collapse of the Repeal movement and the death of Daniel O’Connell in 1847, there was no organised outlet for Irish nationalists living in the North East of England other than for the semi-criminal and oath-bound Ribbon or Hibernian gangs, whose often-violent sectarian activities in Felling,[1] Crook,[2] Shotley Bridge[3] and elsewhere[4] during the 1850s […]

Tags Pope Pius IX, Irish Brigade, Risorgimento, Battalion of St Patrick, Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle, Berry Edge, Spoleto, Bernard McAnulty, Papal Zouaves