Peterloo—an Irish tragedy?

Amongst those killed and injured were a great many of the city’s Irish workers and their families. By Mairtín Ó Catháin This year marks the 200th anniversary of the infamous attack by government forces on a mass gathering of parliamentary reformers in St Peter’s Fields in Manchester, in which an estimated seventeen people were killed ... Read more

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