The Irish War of IndependenceGill & Macmillan, 2002 - 274 pagine The Irish War of Independence was a sporadic guerrilla campaign which lasted from January 1919 until July 1921. The Irish Republican Army (IRA) attacked the forces of the British crown with the intention of breaking Britain's will to rule Ireland. This campaign paralleled the political efforts of Sinn Fein to create an independent Irish republic. |
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... administration of Ireland in its final years demonstrated in a dramatic and concentrated manner all the vices which had existed within it for hundreds of years . The system was in its death throes before the reorganisation of the Irish ...
... administration of Ireland in its final years demonstrated in a dramatic and concentrated manner all the vices which had existed within it for hundreds of years . The system was in its death throes before the reorganisation of the Irish ...
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... administration , French enthusiastically associ- ated himself with the project . ' Government administration in Ireland ' , French stated , ' is ... just as bad as it is possible for it to be . ' French complained that both his Chief ...
... administration , French enthusiastically associ- ated himself with the project . ' Government administration in Ireland ' , French stated , ' is ... just as bad as it is possible for it to be . ' French complained that both his Chief ...
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... administration by saying it had : ' been allowed to drift into such an impasse that no amount of coercion can possibly remedy it ' . He felt that the British public would not support martial law for any length of time and concluded that ...
... administration by saying it had : ' been allowed to drift into such an impasse that no amount of coercion can possibly remedy it ' . He felt that the British public would not support martial law for any length of time and concluded that ...
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Background to the Irish Revolution | 13 |
Outline of the War January 1919June 1920 | 27 |
British Administration 1919April 1920 | 33 |
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