Brian Hanley
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 16 Sep
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He refused to bow his knee to a lot of body snatchers who wanted him to sacrifice his manhood and conscience to satisfy their inclination.
Now sexton.
was very conscious of the fact that, yes, there were many Irish Catholic workers at Liverpool, but there were also many Protestant Unionist workers in the city as well.
Both sections represented by his union.
Indeed, during the strike, some five thousand people attended a demonstration in Shielpare.
organised by the loyal British Patriotic Labour Party.
Security sources taught at the demonstration.
Which they described as the first real attempt to combat Sinn Fein Bolshevik propaganda, had been a great success.
The meeting saw a resolution passed attacking the British Labour Party for its perceived sympathy with crime and disorder and the brutal murder of police and soldiers and law abiding persons in Ireland.
So this loyal British patriotic Labour Party was quite obviously an alternative to the mainstream, which they saw as too pro Irish.
British intelligence also noted at this point across England a growing hostility against Irishmen on the part of British Labour.
And significantly, in Liverpool, the feeling of Englishmen against Irishmen is growing.
They allege that Irishmen can always get a job, whereas they are dismissed.
There was resentment among some British workers at the fact that Ireland had avoided conscription in nineteen eighteen, again through a general strike.
They felt that British workers had had no choice except to serve, but the Irish had managed to avoid this.
British intelligence concluded that the Liverpool strike was actually a severe check on the local Irish extremists.
In a detailed analysis they suggested that the feeling among non Irish men in the port has been raised to fever heat, and there has been considerable difficulty in avoiding clashes.
Posters in support of the strike had been torn down or covered with anti Irish slogans.
Anti Irish graffiti had appeared on Dockland walls.
One trade union activist was quoted as saying, It's the Irish roughs that are the trouble here.
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