Brian Hanley
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The ISDL collected around thirty seven thousand pounds during those years, and around another fourteen thousand pounds was collected independently.
The Republican White Cross raised about thirteen thousand pounds in Britain.
These figures obviously pale in comparison to the huge sums raised in the United States at the time, but the ISDL was central to other forms of protest, which again reflected the position of the Irish in Britain themselves.
In april nineteen twenty, there was a dock strike in Liverpool in support of Irish Republican prisoners, organised by PJ Kelly, the vice president of the Self Determination League, who was also a member of Liverpool Council.
The strike was actually opposed by the Dockers Union leader James Sexton, MP, who feared what it might provoke in a city divided along sectarian lines like Liverpool, but nevertheless thousands of Irish workers in the city were prepared to go on strike in support of IRA prisoners.
Other activists included Gilbert Lynch, a native of Stockport, who'd taken part in the Easter Rising, returned to Britain, and was active as a trade unionist and in the labour movement.
He was involved in sabotaging British military vehicles as they were constructed in Manchester before they could be sent to Ireland.
In march nineteen twenty, the Irish Labour leader William O'Brien, who'd been jailed, stood as a workers Republican in the Stockport by election to raise the Irish issue.
He won two thousand three hundred and thirty six votes.
O'Brien noted caustically that British Unions were refusing to load munitions for war in Russia.
But we're not doing the same for Ireland.
And he asked that they consider the war that was closer to home.
And the issue of Ireland was obviously a major one within the British Labour movement and caused particular problems for British Labour as well.
The British Labour Party, for the first time, was beginning to think seriously about being able to win an election.
The Irish issue threatened to undermine that.
to see them painted as allies of rebels or to split workers.
In theory, the Irish Self Determination League forbid its activists from having any action in regard to or part in English politics.
But in reality, this rule was simply disobeyed.
ISDL members included Labour councillors in Blackheath, Charlton, Greenwich, Limehouse and Popular in London.
John Skurr, one of the four popular Labour counsellors jailed for defaulting on paying local rates, which was a major issue at the time, was an ISTL member.
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