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‘A few of the gods’: Irish Plays and Irish Audiences in North East Theatres, 1860-1914.

Post author By Steve Shannon
Post date June 19, 2022
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Under the headline ‘Fenian Outrage in Manchester. A Policeman Murdered’,[1] the Newcastle Journal reported the shooting dead of Police Sergeant Charles Brett during the rescue of two Fenian prisoners in Manchester on 18 September 1867.[2] In spite, however, of countrywide ‘sightings’ of Colonel Thomas Kelly, police searches, and mass arrests, the fugitives eluded re-capture. In […]

Tags Arrah na Pogue, Auguste Creamer, Colonel Kelly, Fenians, Hubert O'Grady, Joseph Cowen, Manchester Martyrs, Shaughraun, Sunderland Irish, Tyne Theatre, Tyneside Irish, Wearing of the Green