Brian Hanley
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 16 Sep
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Nevertheless, the Irish patriotic strike.
was a moment in which the Irish cause seemed to chime with workers of many nationalities and races, and the idea of a common struggle seemed to win the day, at least for a period.
So in different ways, class, religion, ethnicity were all significant in the two great cities outside Ireland that were intimately connected to Ireland's
Addressing the House of Commons in December nineteen twenty one.
Winston Churchill wondered where what he called the mysterious power of Ireland came from.
After all, he said,
It was a small, poor, sparsely populated island.
Lapped about by British sea power.
How then was it that she sways our counsels, shakes our parties, and infects us with great bitterness?
How is it that she has forced generation after generation to stop the whole traffic of the British Empire in order to debate her domestic affairs?
The Irish question had been at the centre of British politics for almost thirty years.
The question of home rule for Ireland had shaken British politics to its foundations.
The Irish question was in many ways the Brexit of its day.
Hence the Irish Revolution had a profound effect on Britain itself.
Because it also involved a substantial section of the British population, that is, the Irish in Britain.
In nineteen twenty one there were over five hundred thousand Irish born people living in England, Scotland and Wales.
Another two million people were of Irish descent.
The Irish had settled from the early eighteen hundreds in almost every urban area of England, Scotland and Wales.
There have been successive waves of emigration from the island of Ireland to Britain.
As a result, Irish political organisations had always organised in Britain.
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