Brian Hanley
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 16 Sep
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Nevertheless, there were still serious divisions over the Irish issue within the British Labour Movement.
In nineteen twenty, British intelligence reported growing hostility against Irishmen on the part of British Labour.
They also reported that on Mersey's side, the feeling of Englishmen against Irishmen is growing.
They allege that Irishmen can always get a job whereas they are dismissed.
Clashes took place in London, Manchester and Glasgow around IRA demonstrations or after attacks by the IRA.
There was also lingering resentment among many British people about how Ireland had escaped conscription in nineteen eighteen.
The British based unions generally refused to back strike action against Crown Forces in Ireland.
So during nineteen twenty there was a boycott by Irish railway workers of British military transport.
Most of those railway workers belonged to the National Union of Railway Men, whose headquarters was in London, and whose leader J.
H.
Thomas was an important figure within British Labour.
But Thomas was hostile to Irish independence and the NUR did not back its Irish membership in their actions.
Similarly, only the woodworkers union based in Manchester expelled members in Belfast for participating in expulsions of Catholic workers from shipyards there.
British Labour was worried by the potential that Ireland had for splitting its ranks and also for attracting hostile press from an overwhelmingly conservative media.
It was also the case.
That unionism possessed strong support in Britain.
The British Tory Party.
was hostile until nineteen fourteen at least to any form of self government for Ireland.
They had backed the Unionist threat of rebellion.
In nineteen oh nine, Liverpool had seen widespread sectarian rioting.
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