Brian Hanley
speaker
1,140 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 16 Sep
Brian Hanley’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 3 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 2.
Appearances
There was considerable resentment of them as strike breakers, or as those who were prepared to work more cheaply than their British counterparts.
There were also prejudices against the Irish as criminals, as being lazy, feckless, drunken, or violent.
Sectarian division was a reality throughout the eighteen hundreds, in Scotland and in Lancashire, especially.
It remained so well into the twentieth century.
He also had by the eighteen eighties the experience of an Irish bombing campaign in Britain carried out by the remnants of the Fenians.
The British Secret Services were initially formed to deal with this threat.
So the Irish were in many ways marginalised.
The wrong religion, the wrong politics, competitors are a threat to the British social order.
Now, by the early 1900s, as an immigrant group, the Irish began to be superseded by others, particularly by Eastern European Jews, who were also then seen as bringers of anarchism and other radical ideas into Britain and as a threat to the British workforce.
But nevertheless, the Irish in Britain were acutely aware of a history of prejudice and also of the position they occupied.
And unlike the Irish in the United States,
who by the early nineteen hundreds had in many cases risen right to the top.
of politics in urban life and also indeed to the upper classes.
In Britain, the Irish generally remained situated among the working class.
But they were big enough
and important enough to have an impact on politics.
And the politics of Ireland on a day to day basis was part of the life of Britain.
The home rule issue had brought Britain to the brink of civil war between nineteen twelve and nineteen fourteen.
Many argue that it was only the Great War that prevented a civil war within the United Kingdom over the issue of home rule.
In december nineteen eighteen, the general election in the United Kingdom saw a sea change, Sinnfein famously winning seventy three seats in Westminster, which they refused to take.
Showing 881–900 of 1,140 · page 45 of 57
← Previous
Next →