A few sound issues with this episode, did my best to minimise them so I hope they aren't too bad. You'd think I'd know what I was doing after 25 episodes! On the recent Hawks and Doves episode I've heard Gerald Smyth's name pronounced to rhyme with "hide" or "tide", but this is usually spelled Smythe. I've gone with a pronunciation which rhymes with "myth"
I like the fact, of all things, that you mentioned Egypt. I feel too often Post-WWI matters are taken in such little isolated examinations. The overreach of the British Empire in the period of 1918-22 is examined too little as a unit; whether it was Egypt, Iraq, Palestine, India, Afghanistan, the Horn of Africa, Anatolia, or even Scotland(in 1919) the English faced significant push back. (And I didn't even mention Russia)
Thanks. I've noticed that the War of Independence is often dealt with in total isolation from the events which where happening outside Ireland at the time and some books even brush over de Valera in America, the IRA in Britain and the Connaught Mutiny. I think it allows for a narrative that Ireland fought the British Empire single handily instead of being just one part of a larger struggle. Other than Maurice Walsh's "Bitter Freedom" I've haven't seen any books that deal with Ireland in the wider context of the time.
@@TheIrishNationLives I have always been interested in how this affected Cabinet thinking on Ireland and vice versa; I have a book on the Chanak Crisis on my short term reading list right now. I have also wondered how all these Imperial "adventures" filling the news affected American public opinion during the League of Nations debate in the United States. They couldn't have been NOT affected by the reports in the press about how the war to end all wars hadn't made the British Empire peaceful.
Great questions. I'd say it resulted in their insistence that the IRA had to be defeated before negotiations could begin, they didn't want it to be seen that such tactics influenced them in case others tried. I've never heard anything about America's reaction to troubles in the British Empire.
Fascinating. My uncle was one of the Connaught Rangers arrested but not subsequently charged, although he does get a mention in T P Kilfeather's book on the Rangers.
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A few sound issues with this episode, did my best to minimise them so I hope they aren't too bad. You'd think I'd know what I was doing after 25 episodes! On the recent Hawks and Doves episode I've heard Gerald Smyth's name pronounced to rhyme with "hide" or "tide", but this is usually spelled Smythe. I've gone with a pronunciation which rhymes with "myth"
This series is gold. Green , white, and, gold!
Exceptional TH-cams by James Nagle...great credit to him for his work...
I like the fact, of all things, that you mentioned Egypt. I feel too often Post-WWI matters are taken in such little isolated examinations. The overreach of the British Empire in the period of 1918-22 is examined too little as a unit; whether it was Egypt, Iraq, Palestine, India, Afghanistan, the Horn of Africa, Anatolia, or even Scotland(in 1919) the English faced significant push back.
(And I didn't even mention Russia)
Thanks. I've noticed that the War of Independence is often dealt with in total isolation from the events which where happening outside Ireland at the time and some books even brush over de Valera in America, the IRA in Britain and the Connaught Mutiny. I think it allows for a narrative that Ireland fought the British Empire single handily instead of being just one part of a larger struggle. Other than Maurice Walsh's "Bitter Freedom" I've haven't seen any books that deal with Ireland in the wider context of the time.
@@TheIrishNationLives I have always been interested in how this affected Cabinet thinking on Ireland and vice versa; I have a book on the Chanak Crisis on my short term reading list right now. I have also wondered how all these Imperial "adventures" filling the news affected American public opinion during the League of Nations debate in the United States. They couldn't have been NOT affected by the reports in the press about how the war to end all wars hadn't made the British Empire peaceful.
Great questions. I'd say it resulted in their insistence that the IRA had to be defeated before negotiations could begin, they didn't want it to be seen that such tactics influenced them in case others tried. I've never heard anything about America's reaction to troubles in the British Empire.
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Excellent work. Thank you so much.
Fascinating. My uncle was one of the Connaught Rangers arrested but not subsequently charged, although he does get a mention in T P Kilfeather's book on the Rangers.
Another quality episode. Go hiontach
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