Brian Hanley
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1,140 appearances
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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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But it was the fact that some Tories who deposed Home Rule ultimately accepted the treaty, which gave more than Home Rule to Ireland in nineteen twenty one.
The fifty-eight who voted against included thirty-nine British Tory MPs, along with sixteen Ulster Unionists and one Trinity College Dublin MP.
These diehards became stronger in the aftermath of the treaty, and by the late nineteen twenties had become a much bigger factor in British politics.
They still resented what they saw as the loss of Ireland.
and particularly the caving in to what they believed was the Sinn Fein murder gang.
The most high profile IRA attack of this period actually occurred after the Treaty.
The IRA had been gathering intelligence on prestige targets, including the British Cabinet and Prime Minister Lloyd George since nineteen eighteen.
Indeed, during nineteen eighteen there had been a plan that if conscription was forced upon Ireland, that the IRA would attack MPs within the House of Commons itself.
But ultimately, none of these attacks were carried out.
But on the twenty second of june nineteen twenty two.
Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson, the former head of the British military and now a Unionist MP, was shot dead outside his home in central London by the IRA.
The two IRA volunteers who shot Wilson were both London born, Reginald Dunn and Joseph O'Sullivan.
Joseph O'Sullivan had joined the Monster Fusiliers in 1915 and lost a leg.
Dunn had joined the Irish Guards in june nineteen sixteen.
But both men were veterans of the British Army and both were born in England.
The man they shot, also of course, a veteran of the British Army, had actually been born in County Longford, in Ireland.
Dunn and Sullivan were hanged for the shooting of Wilson on the tenth of august nineteen twenty two.
At their trial, Dunn asserted that we both joined the British Army voluntarily for the purpose of taking human life.
in order that the principles for which this country stood should be upheld and preserved.
These principles we were told were self determination and the freedom of small nations.
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