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Given the multitude of Longford men and women who lived and worked in London, it is not surprising that many of them played a part in Republican activity in the. ....
“ON Saturday night, the most widespread outbreak of farm fires which has yet occurred in this country took place throughout the North-East,” reported The Northern Echo exactly 100 years ago this week. “Evidence of incendiarism is shown in the discovery of paraffin bottles and oil tins near destroyed stacks.” That front page from history is reproduced in our centre spread today because it marks the shocking moment that Irish terrorism came to our region. Several dozen haystacks were ignited around 8pm on March 26, 1921, from Tyneside down to Teesside. “They all occurred simultaneously and are suspected to be the work of Sinn Fein,” said the Darlington & Stockton Times a few days later. ....