The next in our 1921 Centenary Lecture series will take place on Wednesday, 10th November (19.30) in the Tyneside Irish Centre, 43 Gallowgate, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 4SG. This live lecture by Professor Stephen Regan of the University of Durham will explore the life and work of W B Yeats, widely regarded as one of […]
This live lecture looks at 1921 from the perspective of 1911. Not so much a counter factual history; more a history nobody imagined… James McConnel is an associate professor of history at Northumbria University. He is a historian of modern Ireland who specialises in Irish political history before and during the First World War. This […]
The Anglo-Irish Treaty was signed in London on 6 December 1921 bringing to an end the Irish War of Independence. This talk will examine the response from the Irish nationalist community in the North East of England to the signing; a response that echoed the bitter division in Ireland. Dr Steve Shannon is the author […]
