Brian Hanley
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 16 Sep
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So from the start
The Mayan unions were not sympathetic to this action.
What had brought the strike about?
Was it completely spontaneous?
James McGee of the Ship Engineers Union.
A member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood and an important figure in Irish Republican organization in New York would later claim that it was he who organized the strike.
by taking firemen off the British ships which crippled them for days.
Firemen were those who worked in the engine room of the liners.
But Father Timothy Shanley.
A cleric who was also well connected to Republican circles, and particularly Harry Boland, recounted how Boland had approached the Friends of Irish Freedom and obtained $15,000 from their victory fund to help pay the New York strikers while they were out of work.
Shanley also claimed another fifteen thousand dollars was sent to the strikers in Boston in order to cripple British shipping there.
Certainly Harry Boland was very pleased with the strike.
Writing to Carl Brewer in Dublin, that the Mannix incident gave us an opportunity to test the spirit of the men along the New York docks, and their response was magnificent.
Boland later told Michael Collins that the anti British strike here was a very augury for our work, and I have ever in mind your ideas along this line.
So it was certainly the case that there were Republican activists on the transatlantic liners, some of them from Liverpool, who were capable of bringing out the men in protest over the Mannox incident.
But the way the strike spread and the popularity of the cause suggest a much deeper sympathy with the Irish cause.
During the strike, the public face of the protest were women such as Gertrude Corless, Kathleen O'Brennan, Dr.
Gertrude Kelly, Lenora O'Reilly, and Helen Golden.
These were all activists in the Irish American women pickets, but they were all very different politically, and there were deep disagreements between them all on strategy, even if to the outside world they seemed a cohesive force.
Helen Golden, along with her husband Peter, was a member of the Irish Progressive League, which was a small leftist group.
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