Tag: Tyneside

Daniel O’Connell in Newcastle.

Post author By Steve Shannon
Post date October 31, 2020
1 Comment on Daniel O’Connell in Newcastle.

On 14 September 1835, Daniel O’Connell, Member of Parliament for Dublin City, made his first and only visit to Newcastle upon Tyne as part of a ten-day tour of northern England and Scotland. Six years before, ‘King Dan’, through his energetic mobilisation of the Catholic Association, had forced a hostile Tory government to yield Catholic […]

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Theresa Mason, Tyneside’s Irish republican activist.

Post author By Steve Shannon
Post date October 31, 2020
9 Comments on Theresa Mason, Tyneside’s Irish republican activist.

In March 1919, against a background of escalating violence in Ireland, a new nationalist political organisation, the Irish Self-Determination League of Great Britain (ISDL), was created by Sinn Féin to mobilise the support of the Irish living in Britain. And, in the industrial towns and colliery villages of the North East of England, from Ashington […]

Tags Irish Republican Brotherhood, Irish Self Determination League, Newcastle upon Tyne, Theresa Mason, Tyneside