Brian Hanley
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1,140 appearances
3 recordings
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 16 Sep
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At one stage during the strike, PJ Kelly had provocatively asked, who was responsible for the crimes and atrocities committed in Ireland?
The men who did these things were the sons and brothers of British trade unionists.
The strike had raised the potential of sectarian clashes in Liverpool and also exposed the gap between trade union rhetoric and action.
Later on that year, IRA attacks on Liverpool docks and on warehouses and property in the city further raised tensions.
The families and businesses of those jailed for IRA activities often face boycots or popular hostility.
A June nineteen twenty three robbery by Republicans saw a local postmaster shot dead, which added to tension again on Mersey's side.
The Irish question, and particularly the religious question, would remain acute in the city for many decades after the Irish struggle for independence.
In nineteen thirty seven, the Church of England, Bishop of Liverpool, would assert that we are suffering from the generous migration policy of the British Government.
Consequently, there are a quarter of a million Irish in Liverpool, and they continue to come every year for the higher dole.
Ireland has discovered a way to make England support her surplus population.
The most serious effect is political.
They may give control to the local Labour Party, which may in turn gain control of local government.
In this event Liverpool will be dominated by Roman Catholics.
T.
P.
O'Connor died in 1929.
having sat in Westminster since eighteen eighty five.
Despite attempts to form explicitly Catholic parties afterwards, most of the old Irish nationalist organization, Home Rule Organization in Liverpool, became part of the Labour Party there, and in effect came to dominate it locally.
So it was the case that Liverpool did not have a Labour Council until the nineteen seventies.
It remained Tory town for decades because of this very sharp division between Protestant and Catholic.
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