| Main Performers | Commander Kenworthy MP (Presiding),
Mrs Philip Snowden,
Mr R Williams (National Transport Workers' Federation),
Colonel Malone MP,
Mr George Lansbury (Editor 'Daily Herald'),
Dr. Dunstan (Labour Candidate for Rusholme),
Mr Jack Jones MP - speakers,
Miss M J Priter - organ |
| Set List | Organ Recital (M J Priter):
'The Minstrel Boy', Thomas Moore (Pioneer Glee Party),
'The Dear Little Shamrock', Andrew Cherry (Pioneer Glee Party),
'The Wearing of the Green', Dion Boucicault (Pioneer Glee Party),
'A Nation Once Again', Thomas Davis (Pioneer Glee Party),
'God Save Ireland', Timothy D. Sullivan (Pioneer Glee Party),
Glees:
'Soldiers' Chorus' from Faust, Gounod (Pioneer Glee Party),
'Sailors' Chorus' (Pioneer Glee Party),
'Martyrs of the Arena' (Pioneer Glee Party),
'Comrades in Arms' (Pioneer Glee Party)
Meeting,
'The Red Flag' |
| Performance Notes | "THE IRISH REPUBLIC
VIOLENT SPEECH AT THE HALL'
'In support of Irish self-determination a meeting was held at the Albert Hall last night, under the chairmanship of Commander Kenworthy MP. There was a large attendance. A member of the audience called for three cheers for 'The Irish Republic', which were given most heartily.
Mr Robert Williams, who said he was there as a Social Revolutionary, moved a resolution condemning the past and present misgovernment of Ireland by the ruling classes of this country, and pledging the meeting to support the demand of the Irish nation for the right to choose its own form of government without coercion or interference from outside source. He said he was as much against armed intervention in Ireland as in Russia...'
(The Times, 17 November 1919) |
| Related Archival Material | Programme (RAHE/1/1919/62) |