SECTARIAN BIRKENHEAD

1847- Birkenhead the new model city and rival to Liverpool.

 Financial crisis- the Irish Famine victims arrive in numbers.

 The North End a Catholic ghetto.

 Liverpool- Reverend Hugh M’Neile, Sectarianism and Education.

 Reverend Baylee-Saint Aidan's College and Holy Trinity Church.

 Sectarianism imported to Birkenhead, first Orange march.

 1851 Papal Aggression Riots

 Is the pope really planning to depose Queen Victoria?

 Riots outside the Town Hall

 Father Browne The Peacemaker

 1857  The Cemetery Riots

 Catholics in Ireland and the Cemetery Issue

 John Laird, an Orangeman, proposes a commission to supervise Flaybrick Cemetery

Irish Catholic responses

 1861 The Garibaldi Riots 

Garibaldi in conflict with the Pope

 Reverend Baylee and poster provocation

 The initial meeting and disturbance outside Holy Trinity Church

The response- a second meeting

 John Laird organises a massive assault on the North End Irish Catholics

 Trial of the ‘rioters’

1882- Birkenhead’s Salvation Army Riots

 Salvationists insist on their right to march through the North End

 Catholic responses to the marches

 For the first time ever it is Protestants who are found guilty of breaching the peace