en English A working-class friend of Ireland Irish Democrat : Features :A working-class friend of Ireland John Gregory was one of Bristol's shoemaker-poets. Born in Bideford, Devon, apprenticed to a shoemaker at age 11, he was to become the writer of hundreds of poems and songs and a pioneer of the labour, socialist and co-operative movements. Gerrard Sables came upon this poem in support of Home Rule for Ireland whilst engaged in research into Gregory's life David Granville, editor@irishdemocrat.co.uk Connolly Publications Ltd, 244 Gray's Inn Road, London, WC1X 8JR John Gregory Bristol Socialist Society Features XHTML™ 1.0 The Extensible HyperText Markup Language (Second Edition) Level Double-A Conformance to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 Cascading Style Sheets, level 2 Copyright © 2001 Connolly Publications Ltd text/html HTML 2004-08-24T11:41:31Z Created 2004-08-24T12:07:47Z Modified