Brian Hanley
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1,140 appearances
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 16 Sep
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They want the chance to make a row and pinch something.
Another dock worker was alleged to have asserted that if the authorities wanted to ship arms by the Irish Company's boats, they will get trouble as they're manned by the Irish.
But if munitions were transported from our end of the north docks we'll ship them and all that's wanted to blow the hell out of them.
British intelligence believed that PJ Kelly had overplayed his hand by attempting to bypass the local trade union.
Liverpool Trade's Council.
Which had supposedly given the Irish unions a half promise.
That if there was another general strike in Ireland, they would take sympathetic action.
now perceived the stoppage as an attack on them.
So British intelligence was satisfied that the prospect of a solidarity action by Liverpool workers was now very remote.
This gives you an indication really of how difficult the Irish question was at ground level, even in a city like Liverpool with a very, very strong Irish population.
Now there have been very close links between British Labour and the trade unions in Ireland.
Many Irish trade unions had their headquarters in Britain, and Ireland was after all at this point.
just part of the United Kingdom.
During the long and bitter Dublin lockout of nineteen thirteen, hundreds of thousands of pounds had been collected by British trade unionists for their Irish counterparts.
But the War of Independence raised difficult questions for Labour in Britain.
which believed it was on the verge of a breakthrough to becoming a party of government.
The nineteen eighteen election had been the first in which all men over twenty one, no matter what their property qualifications, could vote in, and there was a sense that Labor's Day was coming.
The fact was the Irish question could split British Labour.
And British Labour was very conscious of this.
was also the case that many British trade unionists had family members serving in the Crown Forces in Ireland or were implicated in the oppression of Ireland in different ways.
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