An Empire in Crisis (The War of Independence Part IX)
Irish History Podcast
Fin Dwyer
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2021
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
To date the War of Independence series has focused largely on the republican movement. This episode however looks at how the British government and their representatives in Ireland viewed the conflict.
While the show follows those in the highest office in the land, this is not stuffy office politics. By December 1919 the IRA were preparing an attack on the most powerful British figure on the island - the Viceroy - Lord John French. Meanwhile in London preparations were underway to raise new forces to take on the IRA. These were known to history as the Black and Tans.
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