Brian Hanley
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 16 Sep
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The majority of British soldiers in Ireland by nineteen twenty one were not hardened veterans of the First World War, but recent recruits, and many British people felt that the British Army had done enough fighting.
They didn't want it to be involved in any further wars, and they certainly didn't want it to be involved in a war in Ireland.
And all these factors played into the pressure on the British government to come to a compromise with Irish Republicans.
Ultimately there was a truce and then following that the Anglo Irish Treaty.
That provoked different reactions in Britain.
The British far right, the Conservative diehards, saw it as treachery.
Colonel John Gretten MP called the treaty an indefensible surrender to violence, murder and tyranny.
The historian W.
Allison Phillips described it as the greatest humiliation which has ever fallen upon a proud and ancient people and government.
A section of the British right were radicalized by the loss of Ireland, what they saw as the betrayal of Irish Unionism, but also the beginning of the end of the Empire.
General Sir Ormond Winter, former head of Dublin Castle Intelligence, became a founding member of the British Fascists, and the loss of Ireland was a key issue in the formation of groups like the British Fascists.
But many ordinary British people and certainly mainstream opinion saw the treaty as a way as removing the Irish problem finally from British politics and transferring responsibility for this problem onto the Irish themselves.
So in december nineteen twenty one there was another series of treaty debates, but these took place at Westminster.
The British Parliament voted overwhelmingly to accept the treaty.
Four hundred and one MPs supported the treaty, fifty eight voted against.
Even in the House of Lords, which had stood firmly against home rule for Ireland.
166 lords voted for and 47 against.
But it was the case that some two hundred and forty eight MPs and five hundred and ten members of the House of Lords abstained on these votes.
The majority of Tory MPs supported the treaty, fifty four opposed it.
A large number abstained.
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