Brian Hanley
speaker
1,140 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 16 Sep
Brian Hanley’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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There were arson attacks on warehouses, aerodromes, football grounds, barns, farms, railway signals, telephone and telegraph cables, and also on the homes of members of the Royal Irish Constabury, on the homes of black and tans or auxiliaries.
The IRA in Ireland sent information.
which they'd gathered from stealing the mails on the home places of black and tans and auxiliaries in Britain.
And ultimately the IRA began to target these men because of their activities in Ireland.
There were wider plans for sabotage, including destructions of communications, even a plan to burn the football grounds Old Trafford and Hyde Road in Manchester.
But ultimately, the truce in july nineteen twenty one brought the IRA's campaign to an end.
Their raids had cost approximately six hundred and seventy thousand pounds to the British Exchequer, and ultimately the Free State agreed to pay compensation for this in nineteen twenty five.
The operations were supposed to be confined to England, but there were ten attacks in Scotland.
Civilian casualties were to be minimized, and there were to be no attacks on large enterprises that employed Irish people.
The Republican leadership in Ireland were very conscious of the need to enlist popular opinion in Britain, and very aware that there could be a huge backlash against the Irish population had things gone wrong.
Ultimately, however, five people were killed by the IRA in Britain.
They included a suspected spy who was shot in London, a civilian who tried to catch arsonists in Liverpool, a policeman who was shot dead during a rescue attempt in Glasgow, and a London man who was shot while the IRA searched for his auxiliary son in law.
One IRA volunteer was killed.
His name was Sean Morgan.
He was shot dead during a raid on an Irish club in Hume, in Manchester, during nineteen twenty one.
Though the IRA limited its armed activities in Scotland, an attempted rescue of a SLIGO IRA officer during may nineteen twenty one showed what might happen had the IRA embarked on a wider campaign of armed activities.
Sligo officer Frank Carti was being transported from Duke Street prison in Glasgow when the local IRA mounted a rescue attempt.
During the rescue, a police inspector Robert Johnson was shot dead.
In the aftermath there were over a hundred arrests of RA suspects, widespread raids in Irish districts in Glasgow and elsewhere, and also sectarian conflict as local loyalists attacked Irish targets in revenge for the death of the policemen.
This reflected, of course, the dangers of armed activities in areas where there were communal divisions.
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