Brian Hanley
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But the makeup of the British Parliament was very much divided around the issue of Ireland.
There were three hundred and seventy nine conservative and unionist MPs.
There were hundred and twenty seven coalition liberal MPs who generally agreed with the idea of self government for Ireland.
fifty seven from Labour, this reflected the fact that nineteen eighteen was the first election that all men over twenty one, no matter what their property holdings, could vote in.
Another group of Liberals stood at thirty six, the Home Rule Party was reduced to seven, six in Ireland and one in Liverpool, and there were twenty eight others, including some from the extreme right.
But the Conservatives and Unionists who dominated the British government from nineteen eighteen were steadfastly against any form of self government for Ireland, historically, that had only begun to change because of the after effects of the Easter Rising and would change again because of the War of Independence.
But within Britain itself there were those among the Irish community who were in favour of complete independence for Ireland.
Irish Republicanism was organized through the Irish Republican Brotherhood, a network dating back to the phenyons of the eighteen sixties.
But also lately through the Gaelic Athletic Association, the Gaelic League, Shinn Fein, Comunamon and Nathana.
In 1914 there were around 5,000 Irish volunteers in Britain.
About two hundred had come back to Ireland to take part in the Easter Rising.
Among them was Michael Collins, who'd been recruited for the IRB while he worked in the post office in London.
Key figures in the IRB in that city included Sam McGuire and P.
S.
O'Hegerty.
The IRB's organisation was revitalized after nineteen sixteen to provide support for the hundreds of Irish prisoners in Britain.
By nineteen twenty one the IRA itself had around seven hundred volunteers in England and Wales, and perhaps two thousand in Scotland.
It was organised wherever the Irish lived, in London, Liverpool, also including wider Lancashire such as St.
Helens, Wigan and Preston, Manchester, Birmingham, Tyneside, Teeside, Durham, and Yorkshire.
The IRA in Britain's main purpose until the winter of nineteen twenty was intelligence gathering, weapons procurement and smuggling.
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