Brian Hanley
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It had around forty thousand members by mid nineteen twenty one.
Sinn Fein in Britain had about ten thousand.
There was some obviously crossover in membership between them.
The ISTL was again organised wherever there were large numbers of Irish people.
It had around four thousand members in Manchester, around two thousand five hundred on Merseyside, about four thousand in London, three thousand on Tyne side.
It published a newspaper called The Irish Exile and interestingly was confined to those of Irish birth or descent.
And this marked it out as different to Irish Republican support organizations in the United States who were open to anybody.
The ISDL was only really open to the Irish in Britain.
The self determination name came because it was thought to be more acceptable to the British public than a purely Republican organization such as Sinn Fein.
It was also the case that in other parts of the Empire, in Canada, New Zealand and Australia, for example, Irish organizations also took this self-determination label rather than an explicitly Republican one.
The ISDL was responsible for some major mobilisations of Irish people across Britain during these years.
There were hunger strikes by Irish prisoners during April nineteen twenty, and regular demonstrations were organised outside Warrenwood Scrubs Prison in Britain by the ISTL.
During these protests Irish demonstrators were sometimes attacked by hostile crowds, and as a result the IRA had to step in and steward, but the ISDL organized other successful rallies.
Huge crowds were mobilised for the visit of Archbishop Daniel Mannix during august nineteen twenty.
and again during the long hunger strike of Terrence Maxweenie in Brixton prison during the winter of nineteen twenty.
Again in the build up to the Anglo Irish Treaty, large numbers of Irish people were mobilised to demonstrate in favour of a settlement.
The ISDL was able to mobilise far more than its nominal membership through rallies, education classes, Cayleys and meetings.
In February 1920, 10,000 people attended an ISDL rally at the Albert Hall in London.
It also raised funds, but again it probably reflects the social position of the Irish and Britons.
that nothing like the sums raised in the United States were possible.
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