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EARLY DAYS OF TRADE UNIONISM

... EARLY DAYS OF TRADE UNIONISM MISS SADIE PATTERSON, M.8.E., the daughter of a suffragette and a well known personality in the trade union movement, spoke of the early days of trade unionism when she addressed members of Portadown Business and Professional ...

Published: Friday 16 May 1969
Newspaper: Portadown News
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 98 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

oUR MOULDY PRISOX SYSTEM

... Christabel Pankhurst, who, ma all the world knows, was one of the ladies who sr( at to prison for the part site played in the Suffragette raid on the Home of C:ommons, gives her experiences at Holloway to readers of tue Pall Mall Magazine. The need for reform ...

Published: Saturday 11 May 1907
Newspaper: Portadown News
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 111 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

FIERCE STRUGGLE BETWEEN THE POLICE AND THE PEOPLE

... hurst is stated to be in weak health and her early release is expected. She had announced her intention of speaking at the suffragettes’ usual weekly meeting oq Monday. ...

Published: Saturday 20 December 1913
Newspaper: Lurgan Mail
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 104 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

PROBLEMS

... news in that week's issue of the ‘Mail’ came from much further afield including reports of Miss Sylvia Pankhurst and the suffragettes in London. Back on the local scene the cricket season was in fuil swing and Waringstown were knocked off the top of the ...

Published: Thursday 27 August 1981
Newspaper: Lurgan Mail
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 108 | Page: 22 | Tags: none

EXPLOSION AT THE CATHEDRAL

... ~f the force, who made a minute search for evidence, but their only discovery consisted of a burnt fusee match and some Suffragette bills. As the morning advanced crowds of people gathered at the entrance gate, rumour being cireun: lated that the Cathedral ...

Published: Saturday 08 August 1914
Newspaper: Lurgan Mail
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 366 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Woman With a Toy Pistol

... discharged, and the wad went through the constable's serge jacket. The officer sustained no injary. Tre woman is no! a suffragette, and the police attach no significance to the affair She was with friends, and, it is believed, acted in a spirit of fan ...

Published: Saturday 30 May 1914
Newspaper: Lurgan Mail
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 119 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

40 YEARS AGO

... trick at Portadown show. The Picture House, Portadown. showed a film of The Sensational Derby, showing Miss Davison, a suffragette, attacking the King's horse. ...

Published: Friday 26 June 1953
Newspaper: Portadown Times
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 90 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Serious Fire at Newtownards

... Serious Fire at Newtownards. SUSPECTED SUFFRAGETTE OUT-' . ! RAGE. On Wednesday morning the commodious stand erected on :heh unrcur;'!ed portion of the grounds of the Ards Recreation Society, Ltd., Newtownards, was completely consumed by fire, and there ...

Published: Saturday 01 August 1914
Newspaper: Lurgan Mail
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 705 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

AROUND THE CLOCK Qy @wo/MeM Honoured by the Queen

... a series of 10 weekly lectures in Portadown College of Further Education entitled The World of housework, the militant suffragettes, women in the Russian Revolution and wartime work. The talks will be fully illustrated with slides and there will be o ...

Published: Friday 30 December 1994
Newspaper: Portadown Times
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 108 | Page: 20 | Tags: none

WHAT IS IT?

... Chief Commissioner of Police. A police-constable stated that the person was a man, and that the handbills related to a suffragette meeting. The man himself said that an the Government had refused women justice he could not recognise the Government. He ...

Published: Saturday 14 October 1916
Newspaper: Portadown News
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 119 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

The Picture House

... ,”” being a cinematograph production of the world’s greatest sea tragedy. A stand at Ayr racecourse was burned down by suffragettes early on Saturday. Two women were arrested while attempting a similar feat at Kelso, and a number of other outrages took ...

Published: Saturday 12 April 1913
Newspaper: Lurgan Mail
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 115 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

week,. Home Rule Condemned

... and Sir Mathew Wilson was similarly favoured by the peers and Mr Balfour Some out-voters came from long distances. The Suffragettes were in evidence working against Mr Mastermao. Bucks election result was made much of by the Unionists. The result was ...

Published: Saturday 21 February 1914
Newspaper: Lurgan Times
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 114 | Page: 2 | Tags: none