Brian Hanley
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 16 Sep
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We came back from France to find that self determination had been given to some nations we'd never heard of, but it had been denied to Ireland.
The same principles for which we shed our blood on the battlefields of Europe led us to commit the act we are charged with.
The assassination of Wilson sent shockwaves through British politics was again a very graphic illustration of how Ireland could interfere in the heart of the Empire.
It was also the case that Wilson was probably targeted because Republicans blamed him for the ongoing pogroms against Catholics in Belfast and elsewhere.
By this stage the Republican movement was splitting.
It divided over the treaty in Britain as it did in Ireland.
Art O'Brien opposed the treaty, but most of the ISTL membership seems to have supported it, and the movement declined rapidly during nineteen twenty two.
The war in Ireland greatly disillusioned Irish people in Britain.
The IRA and Britain obviously also split, some travelling to Ireland to fight on the anti-treaty side, and others joining the Free State forces.
Leading IRB activists such as Neil Kerr from Liverpool joined the Free State Forces and played key roles in preventing IRA smuggling, others joined the National Army.
The IRA possessed around five hundred volunteers in Britain in March nineteen twenty three.
There were orders from Ireland to begin offensive operations in Britain during the Civil War, but the British authorities moved first.
On the eleventh of March, 110 Republicans, men and women, were arrested and deported on board a Royal Navy ship to the Free State.
Art O'Brien and Sean McGrath, the ISTL secretary, were jailed for eighteen months in Brixton.
And following the Civil War, only a rump remained of the Irish Republican movement in Britain.
Nevertheless, the activities of the Irish Republican movement were very significant.
Firstly, they kept the Irish issue alive and at the forefront, but the activities of the Irish Republican movement in Britain were very important.
They had mobilised support across the Irish community for Irish independence.
They kept the Irish issue at the forefront of British popular politics.
They had found friends within the British Labour movement, had mobilised publicly and secretly, and had also begun a limited military campaign which put further pressure on the British to come to a compromise.
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