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 […]
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The Tyneside Irish Brigade, the only Irish corps raised in Britain during the Great War, was the crowning achievement of the pre-1916 Irish nationalist organisations in Britain. This post, which was originally given as a paper at the ‘Minorities and the First World War’ conference organised in 2014 by the University of Chester, tells the […]
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