Brian Hanley
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first heard Jun 2026
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Mannix had become a supporter of the Irish Republican cause.
He was touring the United States and he intended to travel to Ireland in August nineteen twenty.
Before he left New York, a crowd of up to fifteen thousand, including Eamon Devile, had gathered at Pier Sixty in Chelsea to see him off.
There were rumours that some of the English sailors on board the transatlantic line or the Baltic would refuse to allow Mannix on board.
According to one report, Milton West Street longshoremen heard about this.
They held an impromptu meeting and sent a delegate to the cooks and stewards of the Baltic, warning them that the longshore men would be waiting for them outside the pier if they walked out.
Whether the rumour was true or not, Mannix was ultimately allowed board the Baltic.
Nevertheless, some English sailors were beaten up by crowds at the docks who had heard that they'd insulted the bishop.
Manick sailed on the Baltic, but never reached Ireland.
The ship was detained off Cornwall by the Royal Navy, and Mannix was brought to Britain.
The British determined that he would not be allowed to visit Ireland itself.
News of this caused outrage in New York.
A group of female activists had been protesting about the hunger strike of Terrence McSweeney at the British Consulate in Manhattan.
But on hearing about the seizure of the Baltic,
They transferred their protest to the docks.
Leaflets were distributed calling on longshore men, stokers, oilers, seamen and trimmers, that is the workforce on board the liners, and every red blooded working man to boycott British shipping, and particularly to boycott the Baltic when it returned to New York.
Very quickly, hundreds of excited men and women swept through the streets onto the seafront.
Gathering recruits as they dashed from one pier to another, swarming up to gangways and shouting all off.
When the Baltic docked, it was greeted by women pickets, carrying banners denouncing England's attitude towards Ireland and taunting the British sailors with cowardice for allowing passengers to be removed from their decks.
Soon work along the docks, ground to a halt.
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