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‘Faith and Fatherland’: The rise and fall of the Ancient Order of Hibernians in the North East of England, 1904-1918.

Post author By Steve Shannon
Post date October 5, 2024
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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 […]

Tags Ancient Order of Hibernians, Faith and Fatherland, history, ireland, Joe Devlin, Knights of St Columba, Ladies' Auxiliary, Lady Day Parade, northern-ireland, Patrick Duffy, politics, Ribbonmen, Stanley, Terence O'Connor, Tom Kettle, travel

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‘A glut of rosary recitations and religious services’: The Irish response in the North East of England to the hunger strike and death of Terence MacSwiney, Lord Mayor of Cork, 1920.

Terence MacSwiney, Lord Mayor of Cork, died in Brixton prison on 25 October 1920 on the seventy-fourth day of his hunger strike, and was buried the following Sunday afternoon in his home city.[1] That same afternoon, in ‘scenes unparalleled in the history of Newcastle’, a symbolic funeral procession for the ‘Great Irish Patriot and Christian […]

Tags Fenians, history, hunger strike, IRA Old Guard, ireland, Irish funeral procession, Irish Republican Brotherhood, Manchester Martyrs, northern-ireland, Owen O'Hanlon, politics, Terence MacSwiney, Thomas Banaghan, travel